OK, what the hell has happened to the Brits?

"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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| Now the British airline pilots are considering refusingto fly if there is
an
| armed security guard on a flight, citing the danger of a gunshot in a
| pressurized airliner.
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| I was driving home from Cannon Mountain yesterday afternoon, and
| listening to NRP (National Partisan Radio) as I went. The subject of
| air marshals came up. The Talking Head was a London-based security
| consultant. He said in effect:
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| "You don't want guns on aircraft at 30,000 feet. The air marshals have
| frangible bullets, of course. But what's to stop the terrorist from
| getting into a shootout with the air marshal? The terrorist won't have
| frangible bullets.

Yes. It is much better to allow the terrorist to take over the airplane and
deliberately kill everybody on board while causing as much death and
destruction on the ground as possible. What an idiot.