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Volume IV, Issue # 100, August 30, 2002
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UNARMED PILOTS & AIRLINE INSECURITY: LET'S TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY!
By Michael E. Cook
It came to me the other day, while reading about how our government leaders don't want to let the pilots on our commercial aircraft carry firearms, to consider how many police officers would show up for work if they were told they could no longer bring any firearm for protection of themselves and others? I bet you wouldn't get very many to show up for duty.
Most Americans wouldn't even think of asking the police to go unarmed to do their job. So, why are we asking the very people who take your life in their hands to fly you in a big jet to do the same thing. What would happen if they said no, and quit showing up to fly the plane?
The way I look at it is that anyone I trust to fly me in one of those things, or on a bus, or any form of public transportation that hauls passengers is responsible in some way for the people they haul. Hence, we should give them whatever tools they need to not only do the job but make it safe.
If I'm sitting in a seat on a plane and some nut case attempts to take it over and kill me or my family, then I want someone in authority to take that person out. We ask our law enforcement people to do that every day and they make a lot less money than pilots do. If they can put their lives on the line for that kind of money why can't pilots have the same tools of defense to save my life or others?
It seems to me that in this nation of ours we are forced, these days, to go at everything backwards any. The enviro-whacko's keep us from cutting the trees and reducing the fuel load so that any fires in the forest go out of control and burn large areas and take out our homes. What kind of stupidity is that? Now they won't let the pilots carry firearms so that bad guys can be shot or taken out before they kill thousands of people. Does any of this make sense to anyone out there?
The great thing about this nation of ours is that we are free and responsible for ourselves and in some jobs for other people. So let them do what is needed without making a federal case out of it and letting the whacko's destroy our nation and our homes. Wake up America and take back our streets and our air space and run these nuts out so that we can once more live free and responsible lives in this land.
The whacko's are leading us down a slippery slope of destruction and we have no one else to blame but ourselves. I, for one, will not fly on a plane if the pilots are not armed. It wouln't take too many people doing the same thing to have an impact on the relevant policy of the airline companies and that of the U.S.government. If we refuse to fly until the pilots are armed, I bet the pilots will get issued firearms real quick.
Sometimes, your vote only counts when you withhold your money with the vote. So, all you people who fly all the time should get out and let the airlines and the government know how you feel about the stupid whacko's running your life. Stand up for what you believe in and we will once more have a safe nation to live in and be able to bring up our children with responsibility. What a great feeling that will be.
God Bless America.
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