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I think you completely missed my point. Carrying guns on board aircraft isn't about winning the war. It's about personal responsibility for your own safety. My point is why make it easier for terrorists? Your own post indicates that "it wouldn't stop terrorists, they would devise other strategies."

YOU ARE RIGHT! They would have to devise other strategies, and THAT IS THE POINT! Make them devise OTHER strategies, other than just strolling on an aircraft with a box cutter and killing over a thousand people.

C'mon folks, let's not make it TOO easy for them, huh? Make 'em work for it a little?

Is that too much to ask?

DG

I agree. The refineries, chemical plants and power plants I work at are known targets. Islamists have been caught surveilling some of them by taking pictures and notes. At least one I know of had a Muslim engineer employee disappear the weekend before 9/11 with blue prints and lied about where he was going. It turned out his ID was fake.

Back in the sixties and seventies employees would bring shotguns and rifles to work with them in order to hunt or go shooting after work. Now you can be fired for having a firearm locked in your trunk in the parking lot. Why would they think they have more to fear from their employees than terrorists? Lunacy!