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The shooting death of an unarmed Transportation Security Administration officer in Los Angeles earlier this month focused renewed attention on the safety of the agents who screen passengers for flights every day at the nation's airports, including BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, and prompted a debate about arming some of them.

The words of comfort and respect regarding slain Transportation Security Administration Officer Gerardo Hernandez, who was gunned down by a rogue shooter, are intermixed with calls to reform the way the agency carries out its mission, to which I say: What took you so long?