Mr. President, what the government is doing in airline safety on your watch is unconscionable. The Second Amendment is explicit, "..the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." The words except when flying on commerical airlines does not appear anywhere in this document. You are violating the oath you took to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Mr. President, if you do not reconsider your position on airline safety immediately, I hope the House of Representatives will move with immediate dispatch to Impeach and remove you from office because of your transgressions against the Constitution.
Explicitly eliminate the ability for the good guys to carry protection for use when the bad guys attack...
Explicitly in the place where the terrorism actually occurred... And could very well occur again...
Ask yourself this:
If the government actually was playing for the other side, (and therefore wanted to make it easier for terrorists), how would their actions have been any different from what they actually did???
Total elimination of the ability of the innocent to protect their one and only lives...
I want properly trained pilots, be given the okay to carry firearms on plane flights and I want the Bush administration to support such an approach. But how the feds unwillingness, to agree to this action, leads to the House impeaching President Bush is beyond the pale. There is nothing, ansolutely nothing, in the law or the Cosntitution, that would authorize such an outrageous process to occur.
Frankly, I think this is irrational thinking and inflammatory rhetoric that has no basis in fact. If you've got a good explanation, that shows some legal precedent and isn't just more incoherent rantings, give it to us.
What an idiotic statement. Most of these pilots are ex-military. They commonly carry a sidearm with them on missions. Somehow they manage to remain focused on performing violent combat maneuvers while carrying a sidearm, but they can't remain focused on flying a commerial plane if they are carrying?
The pilots have a 2nd Amendment right to carry a gun, but they don't have any Constitutional right to fly. They can choose.
As for Bush, he's throwing away 2004 - by his sellout by having idiots like Magaw and Mineta as appointees. Gun-rights activists won't turn out for him again next time if this keeps up.
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At one point he looked at the back of the aircraft (where these other men were sitting) and raised his eyebrows. Typing that now it seems so harmless - but in my heightened state of sensitivity it freaked me out. And I wasn't alone - my wife and her friend (a travel agent) noticed it too and exchanged glances with me.
As the flight was approaching Chicago I began to wonder what would happen at 30 minutes till landing. Sure enough 3 of them got up (including the man with a family). I was in a state of complete agitation because the sheer coincidence of timing (30 minutes out seems like an opportune time to do something without people being able to organize a response) was more than I was prepared to deal with. But at the same time that's when the pilot makes his announcement (usually) about being 30 minutes out and most people make a last dash for the lavatory.
Frankly, in hindsight my imagination was completely out of control but was shocked at how defensless and vulnerable I felt. I was sitting by the window with my wife and her friend between me and the aisle.
I say give the pilots a gun and let them shoot the heck out of anyone who tries to force their way into the cockpit.
The return flight was a piece of cake. I did not have near the same level of anxiety that I did on the flight up. Just the normal "I'm 35,000 feet in the air in a 15 ton piece of metal" kind of anxiety.
Oh yeah, this Magaw dork REALLY wants PRIVATE firearms to be painted as potentially beneficial, life-saving instruments in the minds of a public just about conditioned by decades of Handgun Control propaganda that they are ONLY for the murder of innocents.
NOT!!
Mr. Bush, FIRE MINETA, MACGAW and RIDGE -- TODAY (unless, of course, you agree with the Schumer, Hollings wing of the DemoCRAP party).
Think about that NEXT incident and how you're going to feel when you pull the trigger on a plane full of citizens because you refused to allow the crew that last line of defense of their ship.
This is about the most stupid response that anyone could possibly make. Obviously in 99,999 flights out of every 100,000 there would be no reason for the pilot not to be focused on flying the plane. But when the need arises for a pilot to defend himself--when he is under attack by a murderous thug, intent upon killing the pilot and seizing the plane--it is obvious to every rational being (and that is probably a catagory that does not include people who work in the Department of Transportation) that the absolutely paramount need at that moment is to take out the murderous thug! If you cannot understand that, you have no business holding a pretentious sounding position as "Security Administration Director."
Of course, stupidity aside--and this man must really be stupid--the present policy is an insult to pilots, reflecting the demeaning attitude of Government in general to this once dynamic, free people. A pilot is in a position analogous to the Captain of a ship. He is supposed to be in Command of his plane during its flight. Why, in the name of a Society based upon a responsible citizenry, should anyone but he have any say as to what reasonable means he chooses to employ to protect his person and his position of authority? Do the dysrons, who probably surround the stupid Mr. Magaw, have a clue as to what personal responsibility is all about? What traditional American values are all about?
Do any of these people have any role in an American Government? Do you think that George Washington would have trusted one of these specimens of our degeneration as a political society, to tether his horse? I don't think so.
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Action to defend yourself is bad.
Responsibility is bad.
The State is good.
BAC, If I recollect right, this guy was the head of the Marshall service. Those folks who started the ball rolling at Ruby Ridge. He was also an extreme appologist for the actions of the BATF post WACO. This guy wants NO civilians to have access to firearms for self defense purposes. As he mentioned in this article, "they" are bringing in others to care for the pilots while they fly the plane. I DON'T like this guy, or anybody like him! Peace and love, Gerge.