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Tuesday, April 02, 2002

Banning guns does not ban violence. Law-abiding citizens obey the rules, not terrorists.
John Lott in the National Review Online:

Of the three pilots' unions, 83 percent of the Allied Pilots Association, 78 percent of the Southwest Airlines Pilots' Association and 73 percent of the Air Line Pilots Association support arming pilots. More than 70 percent of the pilots of major airlines have served in the military and are familiar with guns. They know more about their planes than the marshals. All the pilots' groups have agreed to training programs before being armed.

Additional organizations like the 5,000 member Airline Pilots' Security Alliance having sprung up pointing to El Al and two major European airlines that arm their pilots as a model for us to follow.

I would much rather have an armed pilot than for the government to expect me as a passenger to subdue a hijacker with a spork and a seat cushion.

posted by Terry at 9:57:00 AM

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