Look I myself, would be a bit squimish to have ANYONE
toting a gun on an airplane. Trained officer or not.
Just like they say in the home to be cautious with
handguns cause they can be used against you. What do
you expect? A shootout at 30,000 feet in a
PRESSURIZED airplane!?!? Not a very good combo. Of
course there are the rubber bullets and sand bags,
shock guns, tear gas etc etc...but do you really want
to be on a plane with that stuff?? i think the
cockpit should be reinforced and basically sealed off
liek a safe vault and that the flight pattern mainly
be Computer Controlled with a very limited possibility
of a manual override except in the case of an
emergency. Have the cockpit on a time lock to where
no matter hoe many peopl a terrorist would threaten to
kill the door couldnt open anyway. Of course with
computer controlled flights you'd have to consider
some super hacker that would hack into the controls
and still cause hell.
Its kinda like with vehicle security for every new
alaem or new club or other anti-theft device thats
created, there's always some new code grabber,club
breaker, or workaround to get into your vehicle.
Sometimes its even an inside job, like if a kid at the
place you got your alarm decides to program an extra
fob with your code and give it to the highest bidder
that wants into your car. For every crime there's a
f#cker willing to do it.
--- Jon Smith <jon@fast4x4.net> wrote:
> how do you arrive at that conclusion? Should
> hijackers make reservations to
> that athorities could have an equal number of
> personell on every plane?
> Obviously that won't be a viable solution... Who's
> to say the officers
> would have the resources available to stop the
> terrorists? Then factor in
> the cowards knowing that officers are on board, add
> in a few more of their
> cronies...
>
> IMO, this is in part an example of lax security and
> I pray that our
> legislative and judicial systems, not to mention the
> American society as a
> whole, will learn from this hardest of hard lessons.
> I for one am ready to
> sign up and ship out to make a few thousand sq.
> miles of glass.
> __________________
> Jon Smith
> Raleigh, NC
> '95 CC 318 4x4 auto
> 344rwhp/424tq
>
>
>
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