[waxhaw]

As before, this question has to be asked: Why are some people in Congress against armed crewmembers? These are the same people in Congress who want to disarm all U.S. citizens and let their god, the government, protect them.

[ppaul]

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater...confidence than an armed man. - Thomas Jefferson

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[Zon]

As before, this question has to be asked: Why are some people in Congress against armed crewmembers? These are the same people in Congress who want to disarm all U.S. citizens and let their god, the government, protect them. 

The politicians and bureaucrats aren't supposed to do anything that costs the airlines money. That's why the airline special interest group lobbies government. It pays the government to look the other way. Government made it illegal for any airline to advertise its safety record. Why? Because the FAA doesn't evenly enforce regulations they set. If enforcing a regulation will cost the airline too much money and it's not considered an immediate or imminent danger (how they determine that I don't know, but it has failed just the same) then the regulation and or fine is not enforced.

It is incredibly moronic. If an airline harms or kills it's customers it should go out of business. Airlines should not be sending money to political parties to "legitimize" harming their own customers. The airlines wouldn't be able to buy political and FAA bureaucratic favors if politicians didn't put their political/government power up for sale in the first place. Snake-oil salesmen. Prostitutes that in the end, the citizens pay for, sometimes with their lives.