[papertyger]

Hon, do tell how your firearm would have helped anyone in that building on 911. And how is it going to stop an anthrax attack

In all fairness, you are being kind of disingenuous. You obviously avoided mentioning being armed on the planes .

And please don't beg the question by mentioning guns aren't allowed on planes... they're not allowed in New York, period.

[cajungirl]

Well you assumption is a citizen would have a gun, right? and the hijackers wouldn't? I will allow that a person with a gun might have made a difference on the planes but if people were allowed guns on planes, hijackers would have them also. The way to deal with terrorists is multipronged but intel seems to be the overarching important one. We are trying to do that. Now in spite of all the criping about Homeland Security, the stupidity of Tom Ridge, etc,,there have been no attacks in this country in two years and you can bet your bippy it wasn't because the terrorists were lounging around on the net.