On Tue, 31 May 2005 17:06:47 GMT, Dave Mundt wrote:

But then, I am one of those "gun nuts" who believes that
the problem on 9/11 was not that there were too many weapons
on those planes, but, that there were too few. I suspect that
having a few folks on the plane with CCW permits AND their
weapons would have changed the outcome of the event considerably.

Absolutely correct. It's absolutely mind-boggling that people get in a
tizzy about the thought of - gasp - pilots arming themselves if they
choose to. Hell, we trust 'em with a plane full of people, I _think_
they can be trusted with a firearm, FFS. There seems to be a common
thread; people see the object as the threat, rather than the person
using it. It's cliche', but dammit, the machine doesn't do anything
it's not told to do. In the criminal/terrorist's hands, it's a danger
to you. In my hands, it's a danger to _them_.

Me, I'd prefer to keep our criminals and terrorists ...uneasy...