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"How about allowing law-abiding citizens who can pass a shooting accuracy test (3 yard shots) to conceal carry. Instruct them to "Israeli-style" carry (no round in the chamber)."

For some reason, our government is more afraid of the idea of the good citizens of this country being armed than just about anything else. Allowing people to actually arm and protect themselves is even more unthinkable than the idea of Arab terrorists flying airliners into office buildings. I don't understand it. What do our masters in D.C. have planned for us that requires that we first be disarmed?

I am in no way shape or form, critiquing the passengers on any of these planes. I was not there and can only imagine the sense of terror that must have filled them all. I certainly may not understand the entire situation, but, given a few moments to collect my thoughts, I would be willing to take the leather belt I wear every day, with a moderately heavy buckle, against a box-cutter wielding perp. Swung visciously and deliberately, it is a very effective improvised weapon which achieves stand off outside the reach of a hand-held knife.