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TKD_McGee
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Location: Washington
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| A pilot can not have a gun to defend the plane against Terrorists? Then why do we trust them with over 100 lives every time they go up into flight. |
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Kickbutt
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Joined: 21 Jun 2001
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Location: North Vancouver Canada
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| Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2001 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Because they're trained as PILOTS. They aren't police officers and have no training as such - you may as well give the gun to a passenger then. |
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kicker
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Joined: 17 Sep 2001
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Location: Canada!!!! (The 5th biggest City)
Styles: kickboxing, muay thai, tennis, lots more.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2001 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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yes thats right kickbutt and also that they are train to fly the plane safly and took a long time to get a flying liscenes and they must know lots of things people don`t know!!  |
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Kato
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Joined: 21 Jun 2001
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Location: Toronto, Canada
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2001 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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| I have to agree with Kickbutt. Pilots should leave hijackers to trained law enforcement officers, who do this as a full time job. The placement of well trained airmarshels on air craft is preferable to arming pilots. |
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kicker
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Location: Canada!!!! (The 5th biggest City)
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2001 6:17 pm Post subject: |
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well said kato!!  |
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TKD_McGee
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Location: Washington
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2001 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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Well, of course you will say that because you are a soft skulled liberal. Cant we just give the Terrorist a hug? If you didnt know, the Constitution says that you have to Right to Bear arms. It dosent matter if he is a Pilot or not. Crimes are easily stopped with fire arms. Would you rather have another Terrorist Incident? Or would you rather be prepaired by having a Pilot with a fire arm. These people are trusted to fly many hours a week, so they should be trusted to protect the people on their plane. They are "Responsible" for the lives that go one that plane each day.
[ This Message was edited by: TKD_McGee on 2001-10-18 20:45 ] |
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TKD_McGee
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Location: Washington
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2001 6:43 pm Post subject: |
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Then again, If the Pilot goes crazy and see's Gremlins on the wingtips, you better watch out!  |
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Kickbutt
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Location: North Vancouver Canada
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| Hey, I'm all for a good debate TKD, however please try to remain respectful of others in your response. I won't (or rather can't) respond to you in this same tone, as I'm a moderator here, so I'm leaving the thread alone. Your opinion is yours and I'll respect that...but I won't call you a derogatory name because I don't agree with it. |
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Kato
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Location: Toronto, Canada
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tsk tsk tsk how could I have been so sorely misunderstood. TKD_McGee you seem to be under the impression that I'm advocating peace and negotiation with potential hijackers, I'm not. All I'm saying is that if it comes to a shoot out on an aircraft I would rather have a trained air marshal, with law enforcement experience, protecting me then a pilot with a gun. Pilots are trained to fly aircraft and they do that very well but THEY ARE NOT COPS and they should not try to be. Anyway I go through my position on this topic in detail in a post I made on page one of this thread, so I will not bother to rehash the whole thing here. Suffice it to say I think there are better ways to handle this then giving pilots guns.
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kicker
Black Belt
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On 2001-10-18 20:35, TKD_McGee wrote:
Well, of course you will say that because you are a soft skulled liberal. Cant we just give the Terrorist a hug? If you didnt know, the Constitution says that you have to Right to Bear arms. It dosent matter if he is a Pilot or not. Crimes are easily stopped with fire arms. Would you rather have another Terrorist Incident? Or would you rather be prepaired by having a Pilot with a fire arm. These people are trusted to fly many hours a week, so they should be trusted to protect the people on their plane. They are "Responsible" for the lives that go one that plane each day.
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: TKD_McGee on 2001-10-18 20:45 ]</font>
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You talking to me???  |
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on the post.
