Private Planes: Freedom, Security, and Responsibility

by "Jim Macklin" Dec 14, 2005 at
01:37 PM


It is all Bill Gates fault, Microsoft Flight Simulator
software allows any sky lune itic to practice the task of
flying into a building in their choice of aircraft. I think
the earlier versions even had the NYC skyline and WTC on the
box cover.

Certainly, it is not possible to learn how to steer and
airplane anywhere else in the world, except the USA. There
are no airplanes in the Mid-East, Far-East, Africa or any
place other than Florida, Texas, and California.

What I want to know is when will the government and the
anti-weapons/self-defense crowd admit that the security
rules themselves left the passenger and crew in an unarmed
and [mentally] defenseless state. Had every passenger had a
6 shot 38 or 45 revolver and instructions to , sit in your
seat and shot anybody who causes trouble, NONE of those
airliners would have been hijacked.

True about MS Flight Simulator. I used to fly it around the WTC (and
Megis field) myself. But, as you know, the terrorists trained at GA
schools. This is a FACT, and has been well publicized.

As far as your arming the passengers scenario, the govt. did "admit" this
implicitly by allowing pilots to be armed.

Where I live, most everyone is armed (including yours truly, with my handy
dandy Mossberg), and there is virtually no crime, so I kinda/sorta see your
point. But, I wonder how comfortable the pilots and other passengers would
feel knowing that most of their fellow passengers were armed??

I fly SWA occassionally. Imagine what would happen during their boarding
process if most of the passengers were armed?