[LeGrande]

Lots of people are yelling about restrictions on liberty at this moment or violations of civil rights....as if there were no 911......some have a point about some things....but there are necessary restrictions and life is not the same during wartime.

Why do you think GA is a threat? If you wanted to ban commercial traffic, you may have a point. I might even support you there, since we have demonstrated proof of what a big airliner is capable of.

But trying to restrict GA more than it is is simply silly. I can carry a lot more explosives in a Pinto than I can in a Cirrus and have a lot more penetrating power too.

Now that I think about it we should ban private cars. Cars definitely kill a lot of people and they are the terrorists preferred choice of weapon.

[Arkinsaw]

But trying to restrict GA more than it is is simply silly. I can carry a lot more explosives in a Pinto than I can in a Cirrus and have a lot more penetrating power too.

You can put up a concrete barrier and stop a Pinto intent on blowing up something. You cannot put up a concrete barrier and stop an aircraft...the only way to do that are to put anti-air defenses and USE them...or restrict the airspace far enough out that you have a reaction time.

I cannot veer my Pinto off 5th Avenue and slam it into the Statue of Liberty within 30 seconds. Apparently this guy could have with his plane this afternoon and so could Osama bin Flyin. You either keep the planes far enough away....put up air defenses....or check the heck out of whoever takes off. I doubt you want the latter. But just ignoring it just cause you want to keep doing what you are doing because you like it is not a solution to the problem for a nation at war.