Skip to comments.
Air Marshals Too Visible
NewsMax ^
| 6/1/04
| Phil Brennan
Posted on 05/31/2004 4:51:50 PM PDT by wagglebee
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-40, 41-51 last
To: snopercod
congress passed a law almost two years ago to arm pilots. IIRC there's an older law stating something about a "right to keep and bear arms."
How did being armed on a privately owned aircraft become the governments business?
41
posted on
06/01/2004 4:33:22 AM PDT
by
ASA Vet
(The "FreeRepublic French" would rather our grandchildren decide which culture is to survive.)
To: ASA Vet
How did being armed on a privately owned aircraft become the governments business?Darn good question. I think the idea to disarm passengers started when commercial aircraft were getting hijacked to Cuba.
There may be some history in FAA began 'disarming' pilots in '87
42
posted on
06/01/2004 4:42:03 AM PDT
by
snopercod
(I'm a mean motor scooter and a bad go getter.)
To: Specter50
Yes, a very few ATPs have managed to jump over all the hurdles which the TSA has placed in the way of getting them armed.
KEEPING PILOTS UNARMED
Simply put, the TSA's intimidating background screenings, which involve intrusive psychological tests; its threats of sharing its opinion of the pilot's psychological fitness with the FAA and the pilot's employer; its refusal to issue standard federal credentials to FFDO graduates; its ridiculous requirement that the firearm be carried in a lockbox onto the airplane, instead of on the FFDO's person; its use of only one distant training facility; its instructions to Federal Air Marshals to police the FFDO's; and its arbitrary and unnecessary disqualifications of FFDO candidates, have combined to discourage most of those pilots who would have otherwise volunteered.
43
posted on
06/01/2004 4:46:13 AM PDT
by
snopercod
(I'm a mean motor scooter and a bad go getter.)
To: sibbel
it would be easy for them to overwhelm the marshalls and take their guns... with their bare hands?
To: wagglebee
45
posted on
06/01/2004 6:49:09 AM PDT
by
Kenton
("Life is tough, and it's really tough when you're stupid" - Damon Runyon)
To: sibbel
If there is a large group of well trained terrorists, it would be easy for them to overwhelm the marshalls and take their guns...Valid point, but after 9/11, I would say it's highly unlikely because I for one would not simply sit there and watch, gun or no gun.
46
posted on
06/01/2004 8:43:15 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(Algore probably invented the tagline.....)
To: I_killed_kenny
You killed Kenny? Oh no......
Welcome to FR.
47
posted on
06/01/2004 8:44:50 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(Algore probably invented the tagline.....)
To: Buffalo Head
Sig P229 chambered for 357 SigFine choice
48
posted on
06/01/2004 9:23:36 AM PDT
by
paul51
To: eno_
"High Government Officials on board"
They don't fly commercial.
To: t1b8zs
These were not crew members. They were "business" people. No airline uniforms, hats, luggage etc. It was odd or I wouldn't have thought about it twice.
50
posted on
06/01/2004 10:24:13 AM PDT
by
TXBubba
(aka TXBubbette)
To: b4its2late
Yeah that is true as well,
but less visible air-marshalls would be
the better way to handle it...
Or as in El Al flights...fortified doors for the cockpit.
51
posted on
06/01/2004 5:11:23 PM PDT
by
sibbel
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-40, 41-51 last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson
