On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 22:06:42 -0400, 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
>
Not practical solution.
Cause the pilots are hired to fly the plane, NOT as gunfighters. I would
rather the pilot spend all his time and efforts to flying or those
activities related to flying. The time and effort spent on learning to
shoot straight (sorry, television to the contrary, possessing firearms
does not make one capable of using them), to learn the signs of impeding
need to use deadly force and be in a position to use it plus the required
mindset to act quickly and decisively all represent skill sets outside
the need of a pilot, or any of the airline flight crew.
Then the other issues such as do you make all pilots law enforcement
officers? If not what about all the cities, counties, states, countries
that do not allow firearm possession or use except by law officers?
Concealed carry? Well if all pilots are armed there is not need for
concealed carry. If concealed carry then try it sometime for months or
years at a time and 8 to 12 hours a day. A lot of people who try get
really bored with the whole concealed carry idea and will become very lax
or non cooperative.
If not concealed carry than what a Sam Brown, web belt or Duty rig? All
this for someone that spends a large amount of time sitting in a chair
that probably does not have an extra 2 inches of width to spare for a gun
and holster.
Let's not have the pilot wear it, we'll just put a gun in a cabinet in
the cockpit and the terrorist and the air crew can race each other to the
gun. (If a Canadian airline then it would have to be a locked box inside
a locked cabinet.)
Hopefully you can see what I am trying to show. Leave the flight crew as
flight crew. Have trained marshalls on the planes. Maybe even get
sincere about ground level security and replace those doughnut munching
high school dropouts that are used as rent-a shirts, oops I mean airport
security officers, with someone with a slight bit of motivation and paid
better than minimum wage.
/Rant Mode Off.
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