<html><div style='background-color:'><DIV> <P>I think someone is missing the point here, how on earth do you wave a 2 inch gun around?</P> <P>I would agree totally if we were talikng about 'water pistol' size toys, but this is a bit over the top.</P> <P> </P> <P>Al<BR><BR></P></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV>>From: Maureen E Muck <MMCMAHON@ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU> <DIV></DIV>>Reply-To: The Airline List <AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>, Maureen E Muck <MMCMAHON@ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU> <DIV></DIV>>To: AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU <DIV></DIV>>Subject: Re: Kid's 2-inch gun seized <DIV></DIV>>Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 09:06:59 -0400 <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>>John, I have to agree. I have a close friend on the police force. Last <DIV></DIV>>year she was confronted with a distraught young boy waving around a gun, <DIV></DIV>>and from a distance there was no telling if it was real or a toy. My <DIV></DIV>>friend found it unnerving, as would airline staff. (I saw the toy...even <DIV></DIV>>up close it was very realistic.) Had that toy been used on an aircraft, <DIV></DIV>>etc., with today's tensions, who knows how much havoc it would have <DIV></DIV>>created? It may seem unfair, or exaggerated, but your point is well taken <DIV></DIV>>that the parents weren't using very good judgement. <DIV></DIV>>-Mo <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>>*************************************************************************** <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>>On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, John Kurtzke wrote: <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> > I did jury duty last week (one case or one day of sitting around), and we <DIV></DIV>> > had to pass through a security setup. During the orientation, one of the <DIV></DIV>> > deputy sheriffs came and told us some of the things out there, and some of <DIV></DIV>> > the things they have seized. It was rather sobering. Guns aren't all in <DIV></DIV>> > the shape and size of Dirty Harry's magnum. <DIV></DIV>> > <DIV></DIV>> > Another thing to think about is that it is going to take awhile for the <DIV></DIV>> > screeners toget things right, and before that they are going to make <DIV></DIV>> > mistakes. But you gotta wonder about parents who let their kids carry toy <DIV></DIV>> > guns on airplanes -- remember the signs in airports several years ago <DIV></DIV>> > admonishing us not to joke about hijackings, bombs, etc. <DIV></DIV>> > <DIV></DIV>> > <DIV></DIV>> > john <DIV></DIV>> > <DIV></DIV>> > -- <DIV></DIV>> > John F. Kurtzke, C.S.C. <DIV></DIV>> > Department of Mathematics <DIV></DIV>> > 278 Buckley Center <DIV></DIV>> > University of Portland <DIV></DIV>> > Portland, OR 97203 <DIV></DIV>> > 503-943-7377 <DIV></DIV>> > kurtzke@up.edu <DIV></DIV>> > <DIV></DIV>> > <DIV></DIV></div><br clear=all><hr>Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: <a href='http://g.msn.com/1HM1ENUK/c152??PI=44363'>Click Here</a><br></html>