> >I say allow the pilots to be armed with handguns. In > >the 40 plus years that they were allowed to be carried, > >not a single incident ever occured that a gun was > >discharged wrongly. > > Maybe.. But it didn't help in the hijacking of US Airliners > in 80s and 70s right? Guess what? Those terrorists had > bigger guns.. Oh, I know.. Let's arm the pilots with AK47s > or M16s then :) Not all pilots were armed. Nor will all pilots be armed (it's voluntary) if Congress gets its act together. > > > >If you can't trust a pilot with a gun, then don't fly. > > I am a pilot. Hopefuly in not so distance future I will > be an airline pilot also.. I don't like the idea of carrying > a gun because at the first place I don't trust myself with > a gun. I never got an education on it, and a crash course > in pistol waving won't cut it. > > >If you trust the pilot with your life and that of 100's > >of others and with the safe operation of a piece of > >machinery that costs millions of dollars, why don't you > >trust him with a tool that can save lives? > > Apples and oranges.. Do you trust a policeman with an > operation of an aircraft? If the policeman was trained to operate an aircraft, I would. It's not apple and oranges. The pilots would be trained in the use of a weapon by a qualified instructor, and it wouldn't be a crash course. As mentioned earlier, not every pilot would be armed because it would be voluntary. If you can't trust yourself to be with a weapon, I have great doubts about if I'd want to be an aircraft that you are piloting. > > I rest my case.. :) > > BAHA > Fan of wathing too many episodes of Law & Order :) -- David Ross http://home.attbi.com/~damiross