My apologies, Sir. Too many of our rights have been stepped on lately that
I'm sensitive about mine and not afraid to speak up about it. (There are
probably black helicopters on their way right now...)

Nobody has said that I can't be armed in my own cockpit (yet) and, IIRC,
back in the early '70s when I was an Air Force pilot in Alaska, I learned
that, when flying general aviation aircraft, I was *required* by state law
to be armed! That wasn't a bad idea considering the wild territory over
which we flew.


"Don Johnstone" wrote in message
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At 15:25 01 March 2012, Dan Marotta wrote:
165,322,431 legal gun owners killed *exactly nobody* in the USA yesterday.

It's the silly dream of not very bright people that "gun free zones" will

make us safe. Tell that to the kids at that Ohio school.

I agree with what you said about instruments on the panel. I have a
TruTrak
turn indicator on my panel but have no intention of flying into a cloud.
Likewise, I have no intention of shooting anyone, either.


I think my analogy has been misunderstood, what I was saying is that your
second amendment gives you a right, it does not follow that having that
right means that you are required, encouraged or even allowed to use the
weapon to shoot someone unlawfully.
Just because you have an instrument available to you does not mean that
you
are required, encouraged, allowed or ganted the right to enter cloud per
se.
If I have this right if the rules committee made a rule banning handguns
from being carried in a glider cockpit this would be ruled
unconstitutional, they can however ban a useful instrument that might save
your life if you get it wrong, the mind boggles. Yer couldn't make it up
could you.
God bless America.