Re: I don't know who's leaking this stuff...

"Chris Wright"
| >>>
| >>>>>    What rights do you surrender by choosing to fly?
| >>>> Ooh!  Ooh!  Call on me!  The right to bear arms!
| >>>    You /can/ take guns on a plane, just not into the passenger cabin.
| >> Oh, I was just messin' with you anyway.  I'm sure they are doing much
much
| >> worse things than just not allowing you to carry arms...
| >
| > Imagine if 80 % of passengers on the hjacked flights on 9/11 had been
| > armed.....
| >
| >
| They'd have blown all the windows out and the plane would have crashed
| on its own.
|
| The last thing you want is a bunch of civilians on a plane with their
| own guns.
|
| No matter how good the Americans think they are at handling a gun, that
| is a bad idea.  (And when I get my US Citizenship I'll be off to Walmart
| to get my own legal gun, so don't be thinking I am anti-gun mob either).
|
| Imagine some poor guy with a turban on reaching in to his rucksack to
| get his packed lunch out and them some twitchy so and so putting a few
| rounds through the window at 36,000Ft.
|
| I'd much prefer to have fully trained personal armed on board, (not just
| Marshall's. Make it so that all Military, Police, Guard or other
| 'proffessional' passengers are allowed to be armed.  Or have some extra
| training course that frequent fliers could register with.

I could tell you some 'interesting' stories about the folk in our old NOLA
neighborhood that were anti- until it developed that the cops won't come
even IF you could get a call through and the only protection there available
was provided by my nephews.