McCain is a piece of garbage and is becoming less and less relevant, day by day.That's the problem. He's still in office and has power. No matter how looney he is, he's still very relevent. And dangerous. Looks like it's back to work for the Arizona contingent!
Thanks for the PING Merc'!
Subject: Should pilots be armed? Dear Sen. McCain:
I wish you would stop trying to force your elitist agenda down our throats. You are well aware that the American people are strongly in favor of voluntary armed commercial pilots, yet you insist on thwarting this eminently reasonable and effective approach to flight security.
Let's say a pilot successfully stuns a hijacker. What does he do with him? Who is going to disarm him and tie him up? The last thing you want is a live hijacker on your plane. The hijacker has to be killed not stunned. Stun guns are an absolutely ridiculous method when you are at 30,000 feet.
I'm sorry to have to say it but I feel you've been in public service beyond your usefulness to the people. Perhaps it's time you sought retirement and let someone else serve Arizona, someone who can hear the people's concerns and act in their expressed interests.
For guns in the cockpit,
He's ticked off that the House won't budge on federalizing airport security personnel (which he DESPERATELY wants), so he's rocking the boat on arming the pilots.
He's the GOP's version of Bill Clinton.
Sen. John McCain Trying to Kill the Armed Pilots... And see to it that they can't do for themselves what he could have done, but didn't.
MADISON BRIGADE
To give the new system its proper validity and energy, a ratification must be obtained from the people, and not merely from the ordinary authority of the Legislatures.
Letter to George Washington, April 16, 1787 (Madison, 1865, I, page 290)
That there be prefixed to the constitution a declaration --
That all power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from the people.
That government is instituted, and ought to be exercised for the benefit of the people; which consists in the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the right of acquiring and using property, and generally of pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
That the people have an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to reform or change their government, whenever it be found adverse or inadequate to the purposes of its institution.
Proposing Bill of Rights to House, June 8, 1789