Re: Now: F.A.M. Was Hijackings. Guns on board Squimish

From: kwreimer (kwreimer@email.msn.com)
Date: Thu Sep 13 2001 - 18:42:06 EDT


10.00 per flight, heck i will be more than happy to pay more in my taxes to
fund them.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Kuzia" <flyboy01@mediaone.net>
To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 10:40 PM
Subject: DML: Now: F.A.M. Was Hijackings. Guns on board Squimish

> 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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