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Air marshalls are a good idea. However, I think anyone who ever makes a move on a flight attendant again will be jumped and severely beaten.
1—Midway Airlines has suspended operations because of market concerns, caused by the recent hijackings of competitors aircraft by armed terrorist over unarmed passengers and crew.
Midway Airline’s management surmises there will not be enough flying passengers during the next several months to allow Midway Airlines to generate the revenue needed to avoid complete financial collapse.
2—Amendment II, U.S. Constitution: “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
A---The dictionary definition of the word “bear” states, “ to wear on oneself.”
B---The dictionary definition of the word “arms” states, “ a weapon, esp. a firearm.”
C---The dictionary definition of the word “firearm” states, “a weapon, esp. a pistol…”
The unconstitutional FAA regulations prohibiting U.S. citizens from exerting their constitutionaly protected "right to...bear arms" on an aicrcraft, can be held directly responsible as an accommplice to the terrorist turning a commercial aircraft into a bomb using knives.
Let's see what airline has the best and well educated constitutional law experts on the payroll, to defend and implement the following marketing plan, designed to attract passengers, producing needed revunue:
“Attention fellow U.S. citizens. Provide a notarized birth certificate or notarized naturalization document upon boarding of our aircraft, proving you are an U.S. citizen and you can fly to all of this airline's destinations, exerting your enumerated, unalienable right to “bear arms.”
You are invited and encouraged to bring your “arms,” worn in full view of all, onto the aircraft and to enjoy the virtual full security of knowing that the aircraft you are on will not be hijacked.
You and your fellow passengers will be the “force” and “deterrent” to the threat of hijacking by terrorist.
Exert your unalienable, God given right, guaranteed to be inviolate of any enacted law or regulation, by the Second Amendment.
And, welcome aboard.”
I contend that every seat will be full.
BUMP
THE ENTIRE EPISODE COULD HAVE BEEN AVERTED HAD EACH OF THOSE PLANES HAD STRONGER COCKPIT DOORS AND THOSE FOUR CAPTAINS HAD CRUMBY $300. PISTOLS IN THEIR FLIGHT BAGS!
WE SIMPLY MUST ASK OUR "LEADERS" WHY THEY DID NOT!!
AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT PLAN, ASK THE SURVIVORS OF THE 5,000 FORMER AMERICANS IF THEY WOULD AGAIN TRADE THEIR LOVED ONES TO APPEASE THE OH-SO DELICATE SENSIBILITIES OF ROSIE O'DONNELL, SARAH BRADY AND THE NUTS AT HANDGUN CONTROL. ANYBODY ELSE WONDER WHY WE HAVEN'T HEARD FROM THEM SINCE 9-11?
As America continues to reel from the catastrophic events of 9/11, we need to rethink a few things:
It’s probably time to train and ARM the cockpit crews of US carriers who agree to the program. Pilots and FOs who do not want the responsibility can be exempted. It was, after all, the folks controlling the aircraft who were the targets on Terrible Tuesday.
During the rash of hijackings of a few decades ago, the feds put armed “AIR MARSHALS” on many flights. While some correctly argued that a fuselage punctured by a bullet at 35,000 feet MIGHT – repeat MIGHT bring the plane down – hijackings fell off.
One thing we know for sure about the four craft hijacked on 9/11: They ALL CAME DOWN and THEY ALL DIED!!
And to those who will inevitably – and stupidly – argue that pilots and FOs just cannot be trusted with the decision about when it’s time to pull a trigger, better tell the up to 400 folks sitting in the back that the guys up front are judgment-impaired!
Personally, I’d prefer to take my chances with a rapid decompression than watch some madman take MY flight into a building or the ground at 500 mph. That was the final experience of 266 fellow humans on 9/11. I KNOW I – like they – won’t survive that!
And pay VERY close attention to the "solutions" being offered by those in government: They are NOT talking about REMOVING the limitations they have ALREADY placed on us as individuals to DEFEND OURSELVES. They are beginning to talk about FURTHER RESTRICTIONS on our liberties and MORE GOVERNMENT! More GOVERNMENT? The same GOVERNMENT that failed so miserably in its obligation to protect citizens that 5,000 of them died like cattle in a slaughterhouse on September 11th? THAT GOVERNMENT?? </font color=red>
It’s again the old, old story: There aren’t TOO many weapons out there. It’s that the touchy-feely, warm-fuzzy PC crowd now sees to it that all too frequently, THE WRONG PEOPLE HAVE THEM!
I WOULD BE WILLING TO GO THRU THE TRAINING TO PROTECT MY FAMILY AND MY FELLOW AMERICAN'S
“A well-regulated militia being essential to the security of a free state. . . ." The next time someone tells you that the militia referred to in the Second Amendment has been "superceded" by the National Guard, ask them who it was that prevented United Airlines Flight 93 from reaching its target. The National Guard? The regular Army? The D.C. Police Department? None of these had a presence on Flight 93 because, in a free society, professional law-enforcement and military personnel cannot be everywhere. Terrorists and criminals are well aware of this. Who is everywhere? The people the Founders referred to as the "general militia." Cell-phone calls from the plane reveal that it was members of the general militia, not organized law enforcement, who successfully prevented Flight 93 from reaching its intended target at the cost of their own lives. Had these citizen-heroes been armed, none of the hijackings would have happened much less succeeded.
The characterization of these heroes as members of the militia is not just an opinion. It is clearly stated in Federal statutes. If you do not believe me, please read Section 311 of US Code Title 10, entitled, "Militia: composition and classes", in its entirety.