I think theres a difference between a sport and a federally and state
funded transportation system.

Yes there is (it's federally funded BTW) - but your point *whatever it
was* is lost when you start a thread trumpeting the deaths of X people
in small aircraft, and follow that up with non-sequiturs about locking
gas caps & drama etc. For a guy who doesn't fly you sure spend enough
time in here spewing your slanted BS about GA & AOPA as if you have
nothing better to do with your time. You've said before you have a
Mossberg shotgun - do you post similarly ignorant drivel on NRA
websites? You keep posting this crap to essentially the same group of
pilot readers, who by now have all written you off as a wannabe pilot
that couldn't get it done, or worse just another Internet crackpot.

Ugh. disgusted sigh