This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Since I was the one to originate the suggestion that citizens should be = armed I think it is appropriate that I respond to you. ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Wimblees@aol.com=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 10:38 AM Subject: Re: Dont know what to say In a message dated 9/12/01 9:28:45 PM Central Daylight Time,=20 ramsey@extremezone.com writes:=20 I agree with Carl. I have a permit to carry a concealed weapon, and = I'm=20 still not allowed to carry one on an airline. I'm a very analytical = person,=20 and have had extensive training in the judicious use of deadly = force. (Hey,=20 everyone needs a hobby, right? Well, that used to be one of mine.) I = used to=20 have a low level Reserve Sheriff qualification in California. I have = fifteen=20 years of extensive combat training in small arms.=20 If I would have been on a plane-load with five or six terrorists = armed=20 with knives, that plane would never have crashed. I would have = simply told=20 the pilot to get behind me and be ready to take the controls of the = plane=20 after it was clear, and after we had dragged the body from the seat. = That's just the way it would have been, period.=20 Kevin=20 May God have mercy on your soul.=20 You talk the big talk. But I doubt very seriously if you have been = able to do=20 what you claim. The circumstances on Tuesay might have been prevented = if some=20 gun toting person would have been on board. But before that, many = planes=20 would have had to make emergency landings, and probably crashed, if = ordinary=20 citizens, who had a right to carry a gun, were on board planes. This is speculative on your part. =20 A single=20 bullet in the wrong place can bring down a plane full of people. Yes, and a single bullet in the right place can save not only the = plane but thousands of others. Airline=20 personnel have had hard enough time controlling passengers who didn't = like=20 the fact that their plane was arriving 10 minnets late. I can imagine = some of=20 them pulling a gun to get the pilot to fly faster.=20 Again your imagination is running wild. You assume nobody else is = armed. I can't imagine anyone dumb enough to pull a gun when he knows there are a dozen or more cooler heads behind him that = will fill his hip pockets so full of lead he can't stand up to support = the weight. A sky marshal is one thing. But to allow any one else with a gun on a = plane=20 is a disaster waiting to happen.=20 This hasn't been tried so it too is speculation. Having plane loads = of citizens that are KNOWN to be unarmed is not a disaster waiting to = happen. Not any more!!! It just happened. No speculation there. Governments fear an armed citizenry, ours included. I suspect the = applied solution will be more of the same that doesn't work. Freedom will be the victim. I'm always amazed that some will accept a huge risk, yet refuse a = small risk to protect some favorite idea that somehow the constitution = is outdated or plain wrong. To those who are open minded, read "The seven myths of gun control" = by Richard Poe. You'll find that some of the frontier towns had high = murder rates, almost as high as New York and Washington DC. Robbery, = rape, theft or mugging tho were almost non-existant. Women and children = were safe living next to the bordellos, saloons and gambling halls. = That was because the young hotheads who shot it out in the streets knew = that if they bothered any innocent citizen they would be dead meat = before they hit the ground. Almost everybody was armed. In spite of = Hollywood, that was a relatively peaceful era. Oh! and yes, I think I'd like Kevin to sit next to me on the plane. Carl Meyer Assoc. PTG Santa Clara, California cmpiano@home.com =20 Wim=20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/71/b6/5e/f8/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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