Imagine if this is what had happened on the morning of
9-11...
Welcome aboard Mr. Atta, your seat is 11 C, do you have your
gun?
No, just a box cutter.

We'll we are handing out guns to every passenger who wants
to be armed, would you prefer a S&W or a Colt or Ruger?
Just select the gun you want and have a seat. Please be
careful, anybody who causes trouble will be shot. Have a
nice day and thank you for choosing to fly with us today.


Do you think any of the airliners would have been hijacked
by a 5 man terror crew with perhaps a 100 armed and alert
passengers [being armed tends to make you alert]?

BTW, Pilots on the airlines were required to be armed before
the mid-late 60's, to protect the mail. Your postman
walking the street also often had a gun in his big leather
bag. But LBJs postmaster general took them away.

The government is dragging its feet as much as possible to
keep flight crews unarmed, making as many obstacles to
getting a pilot armed as they can. The boss of the program
was John McGrew, the former head of the BATF and as anti-gun
a person as can be found short of HCI.

--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

--
The people think the Constitution protects their rights;
But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome.
some support
http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/secondamendment2.htm





"Skylune" wrote in message
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| 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?
|
|
|
|