Instead of posting National Guardsmen inside of terminals, they should be on the perimeters and approaches.
Instead of posting National Guardsmen inside of terminals, they should be on the perimeters and approaches."
Only if the plane was less than 4 miles away from the shooter. And only if the round was one of the anti-armored vehicle ones.
NO NO NO!
You don't understand - a *single* 50 caliber round can cause a rupture in the space-time continuum - obviously what happened is that the terrorists caused two versions of the plane to appear, and the copy bumped into the real one, causing them both to crash!
It must be true, I read it on one of those anti-gun sites.
Very sensible suggestion -- regardless of the actual cause of events this morning. The possibility exists, and security forces did find an RPG near the Prague airport a couple weeks ago.
While a 12' target at 1760 yards is within the realm of a match grade .50 caliber bench rest rifle, the odds of making that shot are greatly reduced when you factor that the target is Moving at High Speed and add to that the odds of a shooter being directly on the centerline of the intake.
right_to_defend: Yes, it makes sense to me. I always figured a SAM was necessary to bring down a jet. But if you can buy a rifle in K-Mart that can do it, I'm almost surprised it hasn't happened before.
Are you sure your not Dianne Feinstein ?
All this talk of a shooter is wild speculation and is playing into the hands of HCI and the anit-gun lobby.