gigag04 wrote:lrb111 wrote:Oh man, good luck.. That's one of my fears.
It's also one of the reasons I think CHLs should be allowed to carry on the plane. Even if they have to carry frangibles.
I'll have to disagree here. FAM's and Secret Service are the only guys carrying in the passenger cabin, and they have the most stringent shooting proficiency requirements. I've seen some CHL's shoot and would not want them playing hero at 30,000 ft with myself and others.
Our opinions can differ for sure, these are just my musings.
-nick
Nick,
That's not the attitude that the folks on the United flight 93 that crashed outside of Stonycreek Township, Sommerset county, Pennsylvania into that harmless field and not into the United States Capitol or the White House. Think of the lives that they saved by sacraficing their own.
It is well documented (by cell phone records) that they fought back because they had heard of what had already happened that day, and now their flight was being hijacked as well. These people weren't sheep.
What would have happened if Flight 11 or any of the other two had not been sheep?
The passengers of Flight 93 fought back and crashed that plane into innocent farmland so that many, many more might live on the ground.
If one of them had been able to carry a weapon, as a total surprise to the terrorists, maybe, just maybe, they could have rushed them--as they did--and captured the ones in the cabin, then they could have killed or wounded the ones in the cabin then they might not all have had to perish.
Now, the ones in the cabin had probably already killed the pilots, but... but someone could have gotten on the radio and had help talking the plane down to a semi-safe landing.
These people, men and women and children, are hero's and not one of them had a firearm or knife.
Think of the possibility of a proven law-abiding citizen, carrying his own personal -- and very concealed-- weapon, a person who is not there to hi-jack anyone, think of the confusion amongst the hi-jackers at the sound of that first shot and one of them goes down, and all they had was a box cutter. I'd bet that they'd surrender... just a personal huch. mind you.
The Sky-marshals and FBI and Secret Service, they're great, and yes some CHL'ers can't shoot that great, but I'll bet that they could when those chips are on the line.
Thanks for the chance to vent a bit.
Russ