Second Amendment Sisters, Inc.
Posted on 10/09/2001 3:48:08 PM PDT by 2nd amendment mama
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NEWS FROM THE SECOND AMENDMENT SISTERS
900 R.R. 620 S
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Austin, TX 78734
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 8, 2001
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For additional information contact
Maria Heil
National Press Coordinator
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E-mail: press@2asisters.org
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SISTERS SUPPORT PILOTS
The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) announced October 5 that a resolution in support of arming cockpit personnel on a voluntary basis was being circulated throughout its membership. The resolution calls for FBI training and federal licensing of pilots for purpose of carrying concealed weapons, and for the government to insure airlines and their employees against any legal action that might result from a justifiable self-defense incident. The ALPA, the United States' largest pilots' union, has asked its members to suspend air service if their proposals are not considered.
On September 27, President George W. Bush announced his administration's plans to bolster security measures at airports and on planes. The proposal provides nearly $500 million in funding to, among other things, strengthen cockpit doors, increase in the number of armed sky marshals on planes, and put the federal government in charge of training and screening airport workers.
The President fell short, however, of endorsing armed pilots on flights, saying, "There may be better ways to do it than that, but I'm open for any suggestion."
Second Amendment Sisters, the grassroots women's organization which supports the basic human right of self-defense, urges that airline pilots should have the option of arming themselves, in addition to the safety measures already being put in place across the United States. Not all pilots will be comfortable carrying a sidearm, and should not be forced to. But those who have expressed the desire to be armed, and who have the necessary training and skill, should be able to exercise their right to defend themselves and their passengers from an imminent threat. As has been proven time and time again across the United States, arming potential victims results in fewer completed crimes.
"Arming pilots would put in place a fail-safe method for preventing the use of an airliner as a weapon of mass destruction," states Maria Heil, SAS National Spokesperson.
Is It Time for a New "Concealed Carry" Category.........for Air Travel?
Government cannot license a Constitutionally protected unalienable right!"
As History has demonstrated, once government asserts that power, the unalienable right is no more.
Vermont is a Second Amendment state. The other 49 are not!
"Shall Issue" be damned! What part of "shall not be infringed" do they not understand?
Not all pilots will be comfortable carrying a sidearm, and should not be forced to. But those who have expressed the desire to be armed, and who have the necessary training and skill, should be able to exercise their right to defend themselves and their passengers from an imminent threat. As has been proven time and time again across the United States, arming potential victims results in fewer completed crimes.
One problem I could see would be if one of the pilots wants to be armed and the other doesn't. IMHO, any time one of the pilots leaves the cockpit the other pilot should keep his gun until he returns (so even if someone manages to jump the pilot who's outside the cockpit, cockpit security would not be compromised). If only one of the pilots is qualified to be armed, how could the other leave the cockpit safely?
Consider this: For the want of 4 handguns and 19 bullets, nearly 6,000 people died.
Thirty-five odd years ago, prior to the implementation of all these bogus "Security" operations and nationwide ban on concealed carry, Americans could travel with personal weapons, and were capable of providing for their own (and their fellow citizens) security.
Now, they are arrested while excercising their Second Amendment Rights, and cast in the press as villans.
This is progress?
“I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
[Thomas Jefferson, letter to Benjamin Rush, 1800.]
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