CNN.com - Airline employees intentionally breach security

[Todd Hought]

reminds me of a good quote I saw once.

"God created all men. Sam Colt made 'em equal."

Give the pilots guns in the cockpits to defend themselves, and you bet
this won't happen again.
-T

On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, George Toft wrote:

> My next door neighbor was moved from his assigned seat to the bulkhead
> next to the cockpit on his flight yesterday.  I guess the flight crew
> assumed by his football player build (he did play in college) that he
> would take care of any 150 lb terrorists that approached the cockpit.
>
> Maybe your tongue-in-cheek comment is not that far off?
>
> George
>
>
> "David P. Schwartz" wrote:
> >
> > Rusty Carruth wrote:
> >
> > > Well, but *disarming everyone* is ***NOT*** the solution to violence.
> > > (and I'm not trying to imply that *you* said it was!)
> > >
> > > (I'm not sure that *arming everyone* *IS* the solution, but experience
> > > shows that bullies attack those they think they can intimidate.  Once
> > > nobody has ANY sort of defense, almost everyone will be easy to intimidate.
> > > I could go on, and probably make more sense doing so, but I'll try
> > > to limit my off-topicness today ;-)
> > >
> > > Perhaps the airlines should *require* at least 25% of the passengers
> > > on board be armed?  Then it might have been better than 1 out of
> > > 4 that did not make it to their destructive destination...
> >
> > he he... can you see going through the security area and getting to the gate, you turn in your ticket, and one of the standard questions
> > is, "Have you taken a small firearms course by an NRA or other approved organization in the past year?"  If you say "Yes" they say,
> > "Would you like to carry a weapon aboard to use to protect the flight in case of kamikazee hijackers?"
> >
> > I think things would turn out very differently if a bunch of hijackers suddenly found 25 passengers standing up pointing various weapons
> > at them.
> >
> > I like it in principle, but unfortunately, if any one of them goes off, the plane is more than likely to suffer a hull breech from the
> > bullet.
> >
> > I agree about the bully theory, though.  Perhaps they should amend the seat belt announcement to say, "and should the plane be taken
> > over by hijackers, we advise everybody to rush them immediately."  Or they could simply offer a big reward to anybody who helps subdue a
> > hijacker while in flight, providing the plane lands safely.
> >
> > -David
> >
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