An airline pilot well-known to me expressed the perfect idiocy of aircraft security when he said, “I’m trusted with a $150 million aircraft loaded with upward of 400 people but I can’t be trusted with a pistol in the cockpit.” Now he tells me they won’t even let him take a Leatherman pocket-knife onboard.
I don’t know why it hasn’t been said but it needs to be said: If each of the eight pilots involved in the tragedy of September 11 had had a revolver in his flight bag, the outcome might have been different. It couldn’t have been worse.
For years an unceasing barrage of lies, half-truths and distorted statistics by a claque of anti-gun zealots has led a large number of people to accept, without question the idea that guns have no place in society. The politicians, being what they are, write laws not to protect society from evil-doers but to make evil-doers out of people who own guns.
Monroe
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