All that this state law is doing is meaningless posturing, because no Texas Ranger is ever going to arrest a TSA agent for doing whatever a TSA agent is directed to do in the course of his duty as a Federal officer, because the consequences — the complete shutdown of a major city's airport for the duration — would create economic consequences that would cause the Texas business community to blanch from tip of their custom leather cowboy hat down to the tippy toes of their rattlesnake cowboy boots. My preference is for meaningful action, not for meaningless posturing. If Texas's legislators want to strut around pushing their chests out and proclaiming "I'm bad, I'm bad" with this act of symbolic defiance, fine. But we got a word for that in the World: Poseurs. When the tip of the spear comes anywhere near them, they're outta here. Good riddance.

Actually, Texas' action is exactly what's needed to enable/encourage the county sheriffs to act on our behalf, defending citizens against attack … by anyone, including federal representatives doing unauthorized things. Because "they have guns," it is the States, not just individual citizens, that must step up to their proper role, as Jefferson et al explained they must.

And until the Constitution is changed by the prescribed method, it has not been changed. Not even decades of wrong-headed Court conclusions can change it; as Washington said, until it is changed by the people, it has not been changed.

Think of it this way. We're not talking about secession. We're talking about getting a hired hand back inside his job description. We want more law-abidin', not less. He works for us, and if he pulls a gun (bomb, whatever) against his employer (us), then everything must change. And it can.