<HTML>In a message dated 9/12/01 9:28:45 PM Central Daylight Time, ramsey@extremezone.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">I agree with Carl. I have a permit to carry a concealed weapon, and I'm still not allowed to carry one on an airline. I'm a very analytical person, and have had extensive training in the judicious use of deadly force. (Hey, everyone needs a hobby, right? Well, that used to be one of mine.) I used to have a low level Reserve Sheriff qualification in California. I have fifteen years of extensive combat training in small arms.    If I would have been on a plane-load with five or six terrorists armed with knives, that plane would never have crashed. I would have simply told the pilot to get behind me and be ready to take the controls of the plane after it was clear, and after we had dragged the body from the seat.    That's just the way it would have been, period. </BLOCKQUOTE> Kevin May God have mercy on your soul. You talk the big talk. But I doubt very seriously if you have been able to do what you claim. The circumstances on Tuesay might have been prevented if some gun toting person would have been on board. But before that, many planes would have had to make emergency landings, and probably crashed, if ordinary citizens, who had a right to carry a gun, were on board planes. A single bullet in the wrong place can bring down a plane full of people. Airline personnel have had hard enough time controlling passengers who didn't like the fact that their plane was arriving 10 minuets late. I can imagine some of them pulling a gun to get the pilot to fly faster. A sky marshal is one thing. But to allow any one else with a gun on a plane is a disaster waiting to happen. Wim </HTML>