AllAmerican
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Everyone on the plane should be armed.
There, problem solved.
There, problem solved.
I'd rather be hit by a stray bullet than have be flown in to the world trade center. I'm less likely to die that way, and if I do, at least most of the other passengers will survive.So I take it your volunteering your family?
Then you would die when the plane crashed, gauranteed, or you could risk getting hit by a stray bullet and even if that happened, have a very good chance of surviving. (I think around 80% of handgun wounds are survived.)if 911 were to happen again, they simply would not have enough time to shoot them down.
Well I fly every day(I am one of those pilots) and the pilots are already responsible for EVERY LIFE on that airplane. KEEP THEM ARMED.
one ND by one pilot since the programs inception is a pretty damned good statistic
So I take it your (sic) volunteering to have your family flown into the side of a building by a terrorist?So I take it your volunteering your family?
How many cops had NDs last year?Dave, one pilot had a ND last year in the cockpit...
I wonder how many LEO have accidental discharges per year.
So I take it your (sic) volunteering to have your family flown into the side of a building by a terrorist?
That's INFINITELY better than the REMOTE possibility of one of them being WOUNDED in the course of that terrorist act being foiled, huh?
Thank goodness none of the pilots on 9/11 had guns. Somebody might have been accidentally shot!
Have you asked the families of the people working in the tall buildings?
Since when do we take anything the press has to say, especially in an EDITORIAL, at face value or as even remotely accurate?
Don't believe everything you read.
I think the Washington Times is jumping to baseless conclusions. All I read was that $2 million was transfered from the training program to supervision activities. How is that killing the FFDO program? What percentage of the total budget is that? Maybe the number of new people who want to be armed pilots is declining because everyone that was interested already took the training, so TSA is moving some funds to oversight of the existing armed pilots?
So if they manage to get through the locked door, the flight crew should just GIVE them control of the aircraft? Or should they all just bow to the Mikado in unison, shout "Tenno Heika Banzai!!" and dive the plane into the ground to prevent the terrorists from taking control?Wait, I thought the pilots were behind a locked door? Underwhat circumstances would a pilot unlock the door to use a firearm on an ill intentioned passenger (highjacker/terrorist)?
I think the Washington Times is jumping to baseless conclusions. All I read was that $2 million was transfered from the training program to supervision activities. How is that killing the FFDO program? What percentage of the total budget is that? Maybe the number of new people who want to be armed pilots is declining because everyone that was interested already took the training, so TSA is moving some funds to oversight of the existing armed pilots?
The most disturbing part of this is, that there was no debate, no announcement of a policy change by the administration, no opportunity for public dialogue. The Obama administration obviously does not welcome opposition, and has little appetite for a public vetting of its closely held beliefs.killing the program by starvation