[NittanyLion]

No, I am saying that on an airplane, the good guys had BETTER know what they are doing with firearms, and that means I demand a much higher standard of competence than you do--apparently, you just figure that granny getting wasted by a poorly aimed or completely unaimed panic fire round is "acceptable breakage." I don't.

The issue was people arriving at a gunfight that St. James Beck the Immolated, Martyr to the Sacred Cause of Libertarianism, terrorists had INITIATED, and the fact that I blamed St. James Beck terrorists for the ensuing mess, whereas you somehow expected people to have perfect situational awareness on arrival into the middle of a firefight from ELSEWHERE aka The Cabin.

Poohbah, the only difference is that government agents play different roles in each situation, and therefore you must rationalize each differently. By the way, I know libertarians are the bogeyman you look for behind every disagreement, but I should inform you that I'm not one.

[killroy]

In the mid 1800s no one would have boarded a Stagecoach with a pilot and co-pilot that were not carrying shotguns.