<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4611.1300" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=ramsey@extremezone.com = href="mailto:ramsey@extremezone.com">Kevin E. Ramsey</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=wimblees@aol.com href="mailto:wimblees@aol.com">wimblees@aol.com</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, September 14, 2001 6:10 AM</DIV> <DIV><B>Subject:</B> Don't know.......</DIV></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"<FONT size=3>Kevin <BR>May God have = mercy on your soul. <BR><BR>You talk the big talk. But I doubt very seriously if you = have been able to do <BR>what you claim. The circumstances on Tuesay might have = been prevented if some <BR>gun toting person would have been on board. But = before that, many planes <BR>would have had to make emergency landings, and = probably crashed, if ordinary <BR>citizens, who had a right to carry a gun, were = on board planes. A single <BR>bullet in the wrong place can bring down a plane = full of people. Airline <BR>personnel have had hard enough time controlling = passengers who didn't like <BR>the fact that their plane was arriving 10 minuets = late. I can imagine some of <BR>them pulling a gun to get the pilot to fly = faster. <BR><BR>A sky marshal is one thing. But to allow any one else with a gun = on a plane <BR>is a disaster waiting to happen. "</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT = size=3></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT size=3>Wim, I was going to post = this off list, but I changed my mind.</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    Everything I said in = my posting was true, and no, I'm not trying to "Talk the Big talk". There were = probably people on board one of those planes with close to the same training that = I have had, and in the same position of frustration at being put in the = situation of being made totally helpless by others who were merely trying to make = them safer. We have all raged as of late at the feelings of helplessness this has = given us, and these were my feelings as I read about the plight of the passengers.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    You are absolutely = correct in saying that some people couldn't act responsibly at all times, and some accidents would probably occur, and I wasn't saying that we should allow = any yahoo who owns a firearm on a plane with it. I was simply stating what I = would have done. And I would have been able to clear five or six people with = knives, easy.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    How about only = people who have had background checks done by the FBI, as I have had; no, I guess that = wouldn't be good enough either.</DIV> <DIV>    </DIV> <DIV>    As far I as know, though, I haven't really done = anything that would require God to have mercy on my = soul.<BR><BR>    </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kevin Ramsey<BR><A href="mailto:ramsey@extremezone.com">ramsey@extremezone.com</A></FONT><= /DIV></BODY></HTML>