[Frohickey]

sorry ... can't agree ... I'm all for the 2nd Amendment but I don't think Joe Citizen should be packing on every flight ... there are too many other possibilities ... I'm for profiling ... just like El Al does ... works very well for them ... and they have heavily armed folks on each and every flight ... the Israelis know what they are doing ...

This is Joe Citizen with a CCW permit, not Joe Citizen without a CCW permit. What makes you thing that Joe CCW Permit Citizen would go about shooting willy-nilly when they don't do that already when they are on the ground? Are you saying that people in the air do strange things?

Now, I do see the airline's reservation about guns in planes, since technically, the inside of an airplane is private property. I agree that the airlines can limit what goes on and does not go inside their property, but I think that the private airlines should go ahead and say it, individually, and spelled out in the contract.

Seems to me that government telling what a private airline can and cannot have in its property goes against the company's property rights.

I bet some private airline would allow CCW permitees to carry. The CEO and shareholders of that enlightened private airline will be rewarded with my travel dollars.

[bootless]

ARM

THE

PILOTS

NOW

[Bobby777]

what you're proposing isn't going to happen unless there is total civil war ... and even then I doubt it ... getting pilots armed is next to impossible ... and that makes sense ... you can't have a bunch of citizens shooting on a plane ... how many? 5? 10? 25? ... putting a person on a plane like that makes them effectively air marshals ... why not do it that way?