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Arm the Pilots
Josey1
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Arm the pilots
Reference the Sept. 13 letter from Pamela Prentiss-Harrison, "Guns in the cockpit." She states her intention to cease air travel if pilots are armed for the purpose of establishing a last line of defense against hijackers.
This reaction illustrates the effectiveness of decades of anti-Second Amendment propaganda from organizations seeking to eventually disarm Americans by first replacing their traditional common sense about, and comfort with, firearms with irrational fear and loathing of inanimate objects: "evil" guns.
Following the attacks of 9-11, military aircraft were authorized to shoot down hijacked civilian aircraft - meaning death for all aboard.
Considering the extraordinary physical and mental attributes demanded of our airline pilots, the risk of an armed pilot's screw-up in resisting hijackers seems trivially small when compared to the certainty of death if shot down. That outcome will be more likely should the anti-gun lobby succeed in keeping pilots defenseless.
It is common sense that the cost/benefit ratio overwhelmingly favors arming pilots.
America, like Israel, is engaged in a war with murderous Islamic terrorists that will continue for years to come. We could learn much about airline security from the Israelis -whose pilots are armed.
Chase P. Hearn
Williamsburg
http://www.dailypress.com/news/opinion/dp-66774sy0sep25.story
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Reference the Sept. 13 letter from Pamela Prentiss-Harrison, "Guns in the cockpit." She states her intention to cease air travel if pilots are armed for the purpose of establishing a last line of defense against hijackers.
This reaction illustrates the effectiveness of decades of anti-Second Amendment propaganda from organizations seeking to eventually disarm Americans by first replacing their traditional common sense about, and comfort with, firearms with irrational fear and loathing of inanimate objects: "evil" guns.
Following the attacks of 9-11, military aircraft were authorized to shoot down hijacked civilian aircraft - meaning death for all aboard.
Considering the extraordinary physical and mental attributes demanded of our airline pilots, the risk of an armed pilot's screw-up in resisting hijackers seems trivially small when compared to the certainty of death if shot down. That outcome will be more likely should the anti-gun lobby succeed in keeping pilots defenseless.
It is common sense that the cost/benefit ratio overwhelmingly favors arming pilots.
America, like Israel, is engaged in a war with murderous Islamic terrorists that will continue for years to come. We could learn much about airline security from the Israelis -whose pilots are armed.
Chase P. Hearn
Williamsburg
http://www.dailypress.com/news/opinion/dp-66774sy0sep25.story
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878