Posted on 04/10/2014 4:54:59 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
Sen. Rand Paul says he wants “100 percent” of pilots carrying weapons, as it’s the best way to prevent another attack like Sept. 11, 2001.
“The goal of my bill is to have 100 percent of American pilots armed, because I think it’s a very cost effective, it’s the most cost effective way of deterring another attack on our planes,” Paul said on Fox News’s “Hannity” on Wednesday night.
The Kentucky Republican says he supports recent calls to allow concealed weapons on military bases in the wake of the recent shooting at Fort Hood, but he is dealing with another concealed carry issue.
“I’m concerned about what is the most cost-effective way of preventing another 9/11: I want all pilots to be armed,” Paul said. “The president has zeroed this out of his budget. He’s advocated for getting rid of the program. And when I talk to pilots — I’m at airports all the time. Pilots come up to me all the time and say it’s too hard to get a permit and to keep up the permit.”
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That’s a ride those folks will never forget….much as they’d like to.
Look up TSA holster. They forced the pilots to secure the gun with a padlock, thru the trigger guard whil not in the locked cockpit, and wondered why they had holes in the side of planes.
MythBusters did it. IIRC, the masks might drop, but the plane wouldn’t have a huge hole in the side sucking people out.
I disagree. I think we should arm all NON-Muslim pilots.
Just to add a note of humor to that story I remember a stand up comedian of the time talking about being “sucked to oblivion” and how that just might be a good thing(?!)
Up until the 1970’s if a US commercial flight carried US mail with a high dollar value, the US Postal Service handed a holstered, loaded revolver the First Officer of the flight crew... I have been told that by at least 5 old time pilots... The nanny states stopped it after the increase of high jacking’s and RFK being shot.
Some how nobody was maimed or killed! Wow!
How about letting citizens exercise their 2nd Amendment rights period... let the idiots high jacking the plane figure out who is carrying or not.
Just think about that... if we citizens could carry as the founding fathers intended... 9/11 would have never happened, no DHS, No Afghan invasion, No Tomahawk missles to the Sudan interrupting BJ Clinton getting his Lewinski...
And I honestly believe we in the US of A would not have the current police state. Crime would be minimal as would Government in general... maybe
Armed pilots WOULDN'T be needed for local, national and European flights, but south of our borders? Asia and Africa--oh yes.
slim is better than no chance in h....
PS He was also an NRA Master Counselor and a pistol competitor of some skill.
He’s correct about this, but I don’t think it would have saved MH370.
It wasn’t funny for the flight attendant who got sucked out of the plane. :^(
In reality. He knows that the cat is so far out of the bag that we will never return to what most of us grew up in and recognize as social conservatism. We spend time and effort on it at the expense of Freedom. Utopia never existed on the earth since the first eviction and won't exist again until He returns. We are making headway on abortions, we will continue to lose ground on homosexual issues and other anti-morality movements. If you want to save anything, you need to save Freedom first, else we become true slaves.
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