Posted on 01/10/2017 3:09:49 PM PST by backwoods-engineer
Most Americans, including half of independents and Republicans, support a ban on checking handguns into aircraft baggage
In recent years, America has, unfortunately, become used to mass shootings, but the recent mass shooting by an Iraq War veteran in Fort Lauderdale has sparked some concern. In the shooting at the Florida city's airport, the man, Estaban Santiago, had checked a handgun into his baggage. After retrieving it from the carousel he loaded it in a bathroom and then allegedly murdered five people, exposing a weakness in airport security.
The latest research from YouGov finds that most Americans (57%) support a ban on checking handguns into luggage, while only 26% oppose a ban. Support for a ban is strongest among Democrats (72%) but even 49% of independents and Republicans support the measure.
The partisan divide on the issue of handguns on planes is markedly smaller than the divide when it comes to general laws on the sale of handguns. While 73% of Democrats want it to be harder to buy a handgun, only 32% of Republicans agree.
Bullshit poll........
Folks who compete need to travel with handguns. Heck you can travel with arms overseas and even British air will accommodate you. Such a ban would not work.
psychotropic drugs. Arizona (Gabby shooter) and Colorado (theater shooter). After a couple of months in confinement, both shooters had eyes the size of saucers, were fairly incoherent ( brain fried) and were valueless for interview.
Meanwhile, the shooter was a muslim convert. No mention of that, of course.
And the FBI screwed up royally (yet again).
Wasn’t it as recent as the 1960’s when passengers were allowed to bring firearms on board commercial flights, in the passenger cabin?
If that was allowed in 2001, perhaps two 110-story buildings in lower Manhattan would still be standing.
Unless a criminal on trial grabs a bailiff’s gun and starts shooting in the courtroom.
It’s happened.
Different issue. We are talking about terrorism. Which is defined as killing of innocent civilians with guns, a truck to mow down street crowds, hijacking an airplane and striking a high rise building, etc.
It’s another BS leftist poll. How surprising.
When I was a kid growing up on Long Island, about 40 miles east of New York City, a neighbor down the road was a pilot for Pan Am.
He was one of the first to fly the Pan Am 747 between New York and London.
At the time, there were a number of hijackings of U.S. aircraft in Europe by Middle Eastern terrorists.
We lived on a hill, down a long winding driveway. One day, my father and I were near the bottom of our driveway, and the Pan Am pilot and his wife drove by.
He stopped, and we discussed the recent hijackings in Europe.
The pilot carried a gun in the cockpit and said, “If they (the hijackers) try to come into my cockpit, I’ll fu—ing shoot them!”
His wife said, “But Ed, what about the fuselage?”
“F-— the fuselage!” he shouted. The man was a character...with character.
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It's not just hunters. I bring my pistol with me every tim I travel to a free state that recognizes my concealed carry permit, or states that have restored the Constitutional freedom to carry (like KS, MS, AZ, MT, etc). I carry while I am visiting, then check my pistol into baggage and return home. THOUSANDS do this every single day, 365 days a year.
And the morons want to ban it.
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Unless you own the plane or are renting it, you won't be doing that. It's a felony to knowingly enter the FedGov secured zone of an airport armed.
This isn't being addressed.
Presently, if you try to bring a gun into the passenger cabin of a commercial aircraft, that is a Federal felony.
I have safely and lawfully loaded my pistol in the restroom after retrieving it from the baggage claim many times. This is perfectly legal in the free states. Peaceable people like me, who only carry for the purpose of defense of myself and my family, are NOT the problem. MUSLIM whack jobs and CIA mind control drones are.
Then I and THOUSANDS of other peaceably armed Americans will simply stop flying commercial.
Sure would. I'm just a C-class USPSA shooter, but I know I sure wouldn't fly to area or national IDPA and USPSA matches if I had to ship my guns and ammo separately. Although a lot of the big time competitors already do that.
Absolute nonsense. Almost all of them were known prior to have either anger issues, or mental instability, or to have taken psychotropic drugs.
Please don't tell me you subscribe to the theory that all gun owners are potential mass murderers? If so, we can't continue having a conversation.
Do you know how many planes finish missions during wartime with tons of bullet holes? Doesn’t really hurt anything unless it goes through a hydraulic line (or pilot) or something and all that stuff has multiple redundancies anyway.
“That will become a problem when the restrooms are put off-limits. Can’t “Load Your Gun” in the restroom.”
So where to you unload your “gun” after getting off the plane with two cups of coffee on board? Or do we now put metal detectors and TSA agents on all the crappers in baggage claim?
That was my understanding too.
The conversation seemed to drift a bit between cabin and storeage, so I addressed my thoughts on both. CCW was an issue too for the cabin
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