Posted on 06/04/2002 8:51:50 PM PDT by TLBSHOW
He's tweakin' some of us pretty hard buddy. I'm ready to bolt.
I want the pilots armed. That said, the pilots should try to stay in the cockpit and fly the aircraft. Me and my fellow "victims" will kill the terrorists.
I never say never, but I cannot now think of any circumstance that would make me purchase a ticket to fly anywhere until I'm allowed to carry my handgun, without hassle or govt "permission".
Either way, the tyrannical politicians responsible for such a decision should either resign from their office, or be removed through Acts of Congress.
My standard is a little lower. I will settle for arming the pilots right now. Incrementalism got us where we are and incrementalism can get us back to where we were.
And often has fighter aircraft in attendence, to protect the aircraft, rather than to shoot it down.
It is unwise for a armed person to allow a hostile person within grab distance. The pilot and copilot can insist that anyone else maintain a certain distance from them when they're in the cabin, and can back up such demand with lethal force if needed. As coach passenger 23E, you wouldn't have such an option.
The cockpit is the key fortress. If it falls, all is lost. Arms kept within the fortress cannot be used by terrorists outside unless those terrorists have already breached the defenses. By contrast, arms outside could easily be taken since planes have insufficient room to allow armed people to protect themself from surprise attacks.
I'll make my own decision.
I don't disagree, but my life is more than "incrementally" in danger.
If law abiding passengers are allowed to carry, I would bet that about a fourth of the passengers would be armed. It would take a small army of terrorists to defeat that many armed opponents, whom the terrorists can't readily identify or locate specifically.
Even if I'm the only one, I like my chances better armed than a helpless victim. In fact, given today's circumstances, I would fight with whatever is at hand rather than just meekly submit to being flown into a building...no matter the odds.
Only once since the 11th, (pre-paid trip prior to 9/11) and not since. I want no part of the circus that passes for airline travel these days.
While I surely agree that the cockpit should be well defended, and that Pilots should be free to carry sidearms, I'd like to ask:
What group of Hijackers would attempt to gain control of a Jetliner, if it became common knowledge that an armed citizenry was free to carry their own sidearms while on Airplanes?
It seems to me, that guns should'nt be banned from air travel... only certain types of ammo, should be banned. All citizens who are armed, should check their weaponry through security, and only authorized ammo should be allowed on the plane. In this way, any would be terrorist plot, would certainly fail. The terrorist's wouldn't have a clue which passenger might start blasting first, or which ones might join in the fray!
The threat of Hijacking Airplanes would be history! at little or no cost to the taxpayers or the Airline industry. They could even make some money... charging a few bucks more for flight insurance to passengers who are packing heat!
Exactly. I have never heard of a shooting at a gun show. There have been some suicides at gun ranges, but the only armed attack I have heard of locally ended when a customer used his own firearm to shoot the perpetrator. The owner of a local gun store wears one of those hunting vests. Gee, I wonder why?
John Magaw, the former reichminister of the BATF, doesn't want any more civilians to be armed than already are, which is, in the mind of that argument for retroactive abortion, already too many.
This globalist toady knows that the only thing stopping their, the globalists, conquest of this nation is the millions, I heard lately it was 140-million, of guns and gun owners, many of which would offer up stiff resistance to such a treasonous act.
It's much easier to committ genocide when your prospective victims can't shoot back.
Apparently, the Gramscian change-agents in the government training camps and the Quisling politicians and bureaucrats haven't done their job as quickly as originally intended because, these evil creatures are doing things now which speak of desperation.
The gungrabbers he's got calling the shots? This business could be the fall of the Bush Presidency, if some common sense doesn't prevail here. A pilot's first and foremost concern is the safety of passengers and crew, and the 'Captain of the Ship' should be an armed individual.
It's really very simple. Just take the lefty liberal politics out of this issue, and allow the pilots, crew and passengers to defend themselves!
OOOoops! Maybe that's the problem? Maybe we need a 'Bogey Man' to fear, so the Feds can protect us?
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