Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 13:06:26 -0700
From: rsrchsoc@ionet.net ("John Wilde")
Subject: [lpaz-discuss] Armed sky marshalls
To: barryyoung@clearchannel.com
Reply-To: lpaz-discuss@yahoogroups.com


Barry,

    My recollection is that it is this time of year that you
always did your show on carrying and owning firearms.  I believe
it is time for you to do that show again and add to it a frank
and open up the debate on the issue discussed below.

    Your suggestion for a return to the armedsky marshals or
some other program is insufficient.  Why should we have to worry
about whether government can protect us?  Government has never
shown a competent ability to protect us.  All your suggestion is
going to do is stop a flight when a "government approved" sky
marshall can't be found.

    The time has come for big bro to understand that the only way
to protect the people is the people themselves.  The laws
prohibiting firearms on planes is patently unlawful anyway and
has always been.  It must go.  We have just never had an arguable
reason to really object to these illegal laws.  Now we do and I
believe you are going to discover that myself and others who
think alike are going to become very vocal.  We already are.  And
no I am not talking about the NRA.  They couldn't argue their way
out of a paper bag when it comes to understanding what it means
to be free.

    Nor, do I want to hear any crap about how terrorists and
hijackers will also be able to take guns on planes.  Because it
is just that, crap.  Understand one thing, the mind set of these
guys is that taking a plane down is no longer sufficient.  They
will not "go to heaven" if they go into a situation where they
know that there is a good possibility that they will be killed
before they accomplish their objective.  That would make their
act suicide, not martyrdom and their beliefs condemn such acts.

      So a prospective hijacker taking a gun onto the plane would
become worthless.  How many times do you think someone would get
away with a hijacking attempt if several of the passengers
carried firearms.  None.  All you would have is dead hijackers.
And, yes, there may be instances where passenger's may get killed
in an exchange.  One thing is for sure, had there been armed
passengers yesterday, there wouldn't have been a chance that
there would be15,000 to 25,000 dead people.

    Your comment about the bullets going through the hull were
correct.  But there are other concerns such as having to shoot
straight down the isle.  That would endangr the flight crew.
They make a round in most of the common calibers called a
Glaser.  It is a high impact, fragmentation round that
penetrates, but does not exit.  It would not be an unreasonable
regulation to only permit declared carried handguns that would be
limited to Glasers.

    Sure, the guy planning on hijacking is going to try and avoid
declaring his gun or carrying the "correct ammo."  That is solved
by continuing the security screens and if he tries to carry a gun
on without declaring it then the law can deal with that.

    Yesterday proved that we can no longer trust the government
to provide for our security.  There can be no "balance" between
freedom and security (the current sound bite catch phrase of the
day).  We must demand "Freedom over Security.   If we surrender
Freedom we will surely lose our Security."  We have a society
that is built upon rights of the individual, with those rights
comes responsibility.  One of those responsibilities is our own
personal security.  We cannot be secure if government improperly
interferes in our rights, freedom, and liberty.

    The government officials should do what they are doing, but
at the same time, get out of the way of the American people.  If
we "revisit our freedom" (Thanks for nothing Brokaw), then we are
lost and we might as well stop fooling ourselves and surrender to
those who would see this nation destroyed.

g'day
John Wilde


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