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U.S. Studying Option of Arming Commercial Pilots
Reuters ^
| 7/23/02
Posted on 07/23/2002 10:32:36 AM PDT by kattracks
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posted on
07/23/2002 10:32:36 AM PDT
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
What's to study? Some of them packed heat in the '60s and '70s, at least a retired airline Captain told me they did.
To: kattracks
YES!!!!
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posted on
07/23/2002 10:36:39 AM PDT
by
Dog
To: kattracks
it's ABOUT TIME! and they ought to allow every LEO in the nation to go armed EVERYWHERE!
To: kattracks
Ah HA!
I suspected something along these lines when Magaw left suddenly...
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posted on
07/23/2002 10:37:19 AM PDT
by
B Knotts
To: B Knotts
Yep.....someone told Mineta to get on the same page..
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posted on
07/23/2002 10:38:54 AM PDT
by
Dog
To: Fred Mertz
this is FACT!
To: kattracks
Well how about that. The antigun weenie
John Magaw 'resigns', and all of a sudden guns in the cockpit are an option again.
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posted on
07/23/2002 10:40:15 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
To: B Knotts
Magaw is a disgrace to his post. Thank G-d his sorry dimpled ass was shown the door.
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posted on
07/23/2002 10:40:55 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
To: kattracks
As our friend Nike says, just do it! If Congress didn't drag its feet so much maybe it would cost less.
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posted on
07/23/2002 10:41:12 AM PDT
by
Lady Jag
To: kattracks
I can't wait to see this one....
To: kattracks
It is much cheaper to arm pilots than bailout bankrupt airlines.
Creating safer skies without further inconveniencing passengers will instantly raise confidence and ticket sales.
SAVE THE AIRLINES, ARM PILOTS NOW!
To: stand watie
it's ABOUT TIME! and they ought to allow every LEO in the nation to go armed EVERYWHERE! How about nationwide CCW reciprocity, so that trusted citizens (not just cops) can carry everywhere? We have reciprocity for auto licenses, so why not CCW's?
To: Enduring Freedom
It's much cheaper to arm pilots then to shoot down an aircraft the next time one is hijacked..
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posted on
07/23/2002 10:44:04 AM PDT
by
Dog
To: kattracks
Armed pilots? But the pilot needs to keep 100% of his attention on flying the plane, especially in a high stress situation as when an Arab is slitting his throat or an F-16 is blowing off one of his engines with a Sidewinder. < /sarcasm>
To: kattracks
could cost $850 million to establish and more than $250 million per year to carry out Why would it cost a penny??
Seems to me that the insurance industry would jump at the chance to save their $50 million insured plane, and the hundreds of millions in death benefits.
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posted on
07/23/2002 10:51:58 AM PDT
by
aShepard
To: aShepard
Oh, and BTW, 850 million divided among 70,000 pilots is $12,150 per polit. That's some pretty serious heat!
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posted on
07/23/2002 10:54:03 AM PDT
by
aShepard
To: stand watie
t's ABOUT TIME! and they ought to allow every LEO ADULT in the nation to go armed EVERYWHERE!
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posted on
07/23/2002 11:00:08 AM PDT
by
Mr_Magoo
To: Enduring Freedom; Dog; aShepard
Since 1970 it might have cost the major airlines a billion dollars to arm their pilots for the last thirty-two years and prevented the 9-11 terrorist attacks and several dozen more hijackings since 1970. Arming pilots is low cost insurance. How much money have the airlines lost just since 9-11?
Oh, that's right, the government gave about a billion dollars of taxpayers' money to the airlines because the airlines -- in "bed" with the government -- didn't arm their pilots and thus shot themselves in the foot -- so to speak.
Which airline would you fly: the airline that advertises its pilots are armed or the airline that doesn't arm their pilots? Oh, that's right, government regulation prohibits an airline from advertising its safety records... fewest crashes per 1,000,000 flights, fewest hijackings -- you get the idea.
Imagine that after 9-11 an airline, say for example, South West airline was to advertise that they have always armed all their pilots. They'd deserve the sudden increase in customers that United and American airlines didn't consider worth protecting.
Insurance companies would be justified in raising their airline premiums if pilots aren't armed. If the pilots aren't armed the airline is neglecting to protect the passengers -- its customers -- the lifeblood of the business.
That's how a private airline market should operate free of government intervention. Politicians and bureaucrats aren't the smartest people in the world and they do know how to create an endless torrent of new laws and regulations each year. Many implemented in the airline and aircraft industries. They, parasitical politicians and self-serving bureaucrats don't solve problems--they create problems that need not exist.
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posted on
07/23/2002 11:02:36 AM PDT
by
Zon
To: Lazamataz
He he heeeeee...
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posted on
07/23/2002 11:34:49 AM PDT
by
Southack
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