[Mike Darancette]

I'll bet if Rosie O'Donnell wanted to come before the panel to talk against guns that the 'RATS would be falling all over themselves to hear her pearls of wisdom.

[moyden]

I say, I say, whoa they-ah little phillie. Now don't be a-filling yore purty little emotional head with big ideas, now.

Ellen Saracini

[CWRWinger]

Commercial airlines are under Federal Aviation Administration orders to install new, heavier cockpit doors by April 9, 2003. They must lock from inside the cockpit and be strong enough that terrorists can't shoot off a lock or blow up the door.

Mean while, the F-16's are ready to blow you travelers out of the sky. The people who think this stuff up are fools with inflated egoes, believing they know better than anyone else.

[Astronaut]

Hollings is the senator from Disney, owned completely by the liberals in the entertainment industry who want to abolish the Fair Use Doctrine of Copyright Law. Senator Foghorn Leghorn has no time for "little people" like a 9/11 widow.

[CWRWinger]

"The door has got to be fixed".....Hollings

The Senate and Hollings Senate needs to be fixed first. It's time for him to go. The last good thing he ever did was to put the Confederate Flag on the dome. Hollings is a consistent embarassment to the people of SC. This boot-licking, heritage hating scalawag, be gone!

[JessicaDragonet]

This is the same train of though that says...if you don't want your children raped and murdered...keep them in the house 24/7. If you don't like too much graphic sex and violence on TV...too bad, turn it off! Don't want to be robbed or assaulted...then stay in the house and put bars on the windows. We are expected to live like moles while vermin walk around like they own the place!

Hollings is a gutless wonder and he wants the rest of us to follow suit.

[cynicom]

One has to put Hollings in that group of professional politicians that should have been removed years ago.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Wheels have to be round, Hollins, this was discovered when the roads were paved. You got away with blaming the problems on the ruts in the road, Senator, but truth reveals that you are square-wheels are round. You would make a good grave stone, if ever etching tools harder than your head are invented.

[ozzymandus]

If the pubbies had any guts (wishful thinking, I know) they'd use this senile windbag as a poster boy for the congressional elections. Then again, there are dozens, if not hundreds, of slimy, traitorous, criminal RAT pols the pubs could use. If they had any guts.

[cubreporter]

Strange how they let all the movie "stars" on to talk this and that and along comes a lady who is most qualified to testify and Hollings says no? Who the H--- is he to say no anyway? I'm glad she went on O'Reilly. She should go on every TV and radio talk show who will have her. Shout it from the rooftops. This IS a free country Senator Hollings at leat that's what you all say...so why not let this woman speak? Afraid Hollings? Well, tough. Cause now it's gonna grow bigger than I think you want it.

[carpio]

I suppose no one would want Holling's washington Fax # ?????

Wink. Wink. ;-) 202-224-4293

[Houmatt]

"The door has got to be fixed - impenetrable - and never opened in flight," Hollings said on Thursday. "Once that's fixed, we've solved the problem of an airliner flying into the Empire State Building. We've solved the problem of guns in the cockpit."

And what about the flight attendants being cut to pieces by terrorists bearing box cutters?

[Skybird]

"One pilot, Capt. Ed Davidson, director of flight safety for Northwest Airlines, testified against it, Davis said."

Guess I won't fly Northwest anytime that there's another choice!!

[Skybird]

Hollings doesn't want the doors opened at all while the plane is aloft. "The door has got to be fixed - impenetrable - and never opened in flight," Hollings said on Thursday. "Once that's fixed, we've solved the problem of an airliner flying into the Empire State Building. We've solved the problem of guns in the cockpit."

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Hollings is truly a MORON.

There are various flight procedures which REQUIRE a crew member to visually verify equipment in parts of the aircraft (outside of the flight deck) when there are malfunctions. One common one is when there's a question about landing gear being "down and locked." I've seen it on several commercial flights that I've been on where the carpeting is pulled up and a floor panel removed to check something. Boeing and other manufacturers have this in their operating technical orders and specifications.

Imagine the United DC-10 flight which crash landed at Sioux City several years ago not being able to leave the flight deck when one of the turbines shattered and titanium pieces went everywhere. The crew had to figure out and implement emergency procedures when the hydraulic lines were severed and also needed to assess the airworthiness of their aircraft. This, Sen Hollings, necessitated going back to the rear of the plane (e.g. leaving the flight deck).

[timestax]

He's an arrogant monster!!

[CWRWinger]

Luckey said, "Neither the current cockpit doors nor the new cockpit doors are impenetrable," and therefore pilots should be allowed to carry guns.

It appears the author of this article is in agreement with the pilots having guns. He needs to go a step futher and condemn the infringement on the Second Amendment being perpetrated by the people who operate our government.