I hope the airline pilots go on strike over this. Norm Mineta and his cronies need to be fired! > "Pilots need to concentrate on flying the plane," Magaw said later in the > hearing. Specially trained air marshals should be the only armed officers on > board, he added. The odds of having an air marshall on any given flight are very small - possibly less than 1% > Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., a co-sponsor of legislation to arm pilots, asked > Magaw to reconsider his opposition. What do you mean, "ask?" Senator Burns, you are the boss of these idiots, don't ask, demand. > Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., who chairs the Commerce Committee, said guns > would not be needed as long as pilots kept cockpit doors locked while in > flight. Bullshit! -- David Ross http://home.attbi.com/~damiross