I would completely trust a Federal Air Marshal with a gun, these guys are
THE BEST shots in the world! 100% accuracy I heard, they NEVER miss a shot.
They are recruited from the military and police forces, they are all known
for perfect marksmanship with moving targets, and they have one mission, to
protect us from hijackers with deadly force authorized. They already fly
anonymously on flights everywhere, unfortunately there are only a few of
them (less that 50 I believe) in the U.S., and there are 35,000+ flights a
day. What we need is more of them, that would be a big deterrent to
hijackings, one on every 3 flights. They all carry guns, they only shoot
once per bad guy, and they never wound, headshots only. I for one would not
mind paying an extra $10 per flight to fund them.
Mark Kuzia
flyboy01@mediaone.net
http://people.mw.mediaone.net/flyboy01/home.html
1995 Dakota 13.79 @ 102.45 mph "Fastdak"
~360ci, 5-spd, 8 3/4 rear / 3.90-SG
1994 Dakota 15.36 @ 91.56 mph
~318ci, 5-spd, 3.90 LS (bone stock, no mods)
----- Original Message -----
From: "KatedralDeAguirre" <bluedoberman@yahoo.com>
To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 2:56 PM
Subject: DML: Re: Hijackings. Guns on board Squimish
> 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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