7 Aug
2004
7 Aug
'04
4:39 a.m.
the last thing I would want is some average guy with a
concealed
weapons permit having a gun on board... getting a permit is too easy
and without proper training would be more dangerous than safe.
Sounds to me as though your issue is with getting concealed-carry
permits rather than with having people on board who are, almost by
definition, trusted with concealed weapons.
9/11 was a paridigm shift from hijacking being a
"take me where I
want to go scenario" to guaranteed death. I would believe that any
passenger jet that was taken over by any means would not succeed now
because of what passengers would do rather than sitting back and
waiting. Those days are gone.
It sounds to me as though this is more an argument to scrap the whole
idea of keeping weapons out of the hands of airline passengers (at
least while they are on the plane).
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