On Thursday 13 September 2001 22:06 pm, Joel Hammer wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 09:53:05PM -0400, dep wrote:
> > On Thursday 13 September 2001 21:42, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > | Those who cry out for no restraints on personal freedom may find
> > | one day their personal choices reduced to burning to death or
> > | jumping 80 stories. Joel
> >
> > those who cry out for no restraints on personal freedoms will happily
> > point out to you that, as has been the case on the lirr and elsewhere
> > in the past, one good man with a gun would have solved the problem
> > with considerably less loss of life.
> > --
>
> I agree. Why they don't arm the pilots is beyond me.
> Joel
Good thought but I think the problem is that they would have a dillemma if
some crazies are banging on the cockpit door while they hold a knife to one
or more stews/passengers and all the while the pilots are supposed to be
flying the plane. Doesn't sound like a healthy situation to me.
If there were 3 or 4 crazies, the pilots would probably have to shoot through
3 or 4 hostages in order to kill the crazies. Might be a necessary
trade-off but still not a nice situation.
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+ Bruce S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bellaire, MI 09/13/01 22:27 +
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opener and your camera's flash attachment"
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