Every time I take off my belt at airport security, I keep thinking that the terrorists should send the security personnel a letter of thanks. If they didn’t do that, the terrorists would like to.
What all that airport security guarantees is that if a terrorist wants to take over a plane, everyone on board is absolutely helpless against him.
The hundreds of thousands of people who have held concealed weapons permits for over a decade now have a MUCH better record with their guns than ANY police agency does. If you ever saw one permit holder do something stupid with his gun it would be on the front page coast-to-coast.
How many times have you seen or seen it reported the POLICE used their guns recklessly?
Why is this true?
Police work often destroys the nerves. A permit holder is not subject to the constant pressure a policeman is.
Ask any police psychiatrist whether every policeman he knows is fit to be armed twenty-four hours of every day.
They are all REQUIRED to be so armed. Look at THAT before you panic over “Letting citizens carry guns.”
If terrorists are enough of a threat to make strip-searching grandmothers and all the rest necessary, the simple fact is that permit holders are demonstrably FAR less dangerous than that.
And even the possibility of ONE permit holder with a gun would destroy all the plans a terrorist can make.
#1 by Shari on 03/14/2006 - 5:18 pm
Why on earth are we so nutty, that we still think that the government and its bureau’s are in the protecting business? Not long ago an “imigrant” walked into a conveniece store to rob it at knife point. The young woman working there was 8 mo. pregnant. She immediately sent the alarm for the police, who showed in about 5 min. BUT, they stayed outside,”securing the parameters” waiting for a “swat team” Meanwhile this ILLEGAL from El Salvador takes her in the bathroom and rapes her!!! Of course, not one thing has changed and who cares.
#2 by kanefromsf on 03/14/2006 - 5:28 pm
One of two things have to happen. Either no one on the plane has a gun. And I mean no-one. Or everyone has a gun. Because you can’t allow terrorists to have it but simultaneously disallow the average person to have it.
The planes better darn well be bullet proof though.
#3 by DS1 on 03/14/2006 - 9:57 pm
Why don’t we just kick out the Muslims? That is what they do in Saudi Arabia to their potential enemies?
Oh sorry, I forgot we have to make Islam ‘safe’ for the world —uh hum—I mean Isreal.
I wonder if they have a plan in case they mis-judged the Mooslums? I wonder if they have a plan in case they are wrong? Oh I forgot again —NeoCons got it all figured out. The peasants await the details.