Instead, this FBI agent uses the video to show emergency workers how to improve their own safety by being prepared for such an event. Whatever salary we taxpayers are giving this federal employee, it just isn't enough. You want his job? I'm not that brave or that crazy, but I thank God someone is.

Forgive me for telling this long story. I share it in the hope it will give you a better appreciation of the men and women who risk their own lives to protect us. This is why I am in favor of pulling out all the stops to protect our protectors.

I bring this up because my colleague Mike Elgan has written an interesting piece examining the case for allowing the by law enforcement and prisons here in the United States.

Right now, only federal law enforcement can legally jam cell phones, something they recently did to protect President Obama from improvised explosive devices as he walked down Pennsylvania Ave. following his swearing in.

Elgan talks about a proposal, now before Congress, that could lead to the legal jamming of cellular handsets in state and federal prisons, where smuggled devices allow the bad guys to run their businesses from behind bars.