Comments on: Obama Quietly Ends The Armed Pilot Program

By: Buzz

Buzz — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I wonder why guards in prisons aren’t allowed to carry guns?
Any guesses? Would you think that “something far fetched, some scheme from terrorists” wouldn’t include incorporating the pilots gun into the hijacking? Do you think that the pilot would be willing to shoot through the child that the terrorist is holding in front of him?

The armed pilot walks out of the cockpit with the terrorists 225 feet ahead of him with 300 people between them. How many shots will it take to kill him, or them. How many are there, and where are they. The program is only a ruse to make the would be terrorists think there is security on the plane. The real security is the passengers. More terrorists have been taken down by the passengers than the pilots.

By: AR-15

AR-15 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Another brilliant move by the top idiot.

By: Mo

Mo — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

this is the best news i have heard since 2003.

By: Hawk

Hawk — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Buzz….it’s NOT the pilot’s job to go out into the plane and play rescue ranger. It’s his job to use that weapon to keep the cockpit in the hands of the right people.

We ought to make it that while the plane is in flight the cockpit door cannot be opened. If we want somebody armed to be on a plane, which I personally think would be a poor use of resources, than get an air marshall.

By: Hannitized

Hannitized — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t understand this move…it will be interesting to learn more as time progresses.

But Carrick, for arguments sake. What does a pilot do if a Terrorist comes to the cockpit with children or passengers as human shields? Why not just give them tazers or rubber bullets?

By: Lyn

Lyn — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Obama does not worry about airline safety. He flies Air Force One. As for the rest of the common people – the suckers, the dupes, the rubes, the voters – Obama wants you to keep working and paying your taxes. That’s as far as his thinking goes; your safety is not on his list of priorities.

Also this is just another personal thing for Obama. Former Pres. Bush started the armed pilot program, and Obama ends it.

By: Buzz

Buzz — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Buzz:

I wonder why guards in prisons aren’t allowed to carry guns?

I dunna. Why not ask this guy?

In prisons moron, not on top of prisons. If you can be touched by a prisoner you can not have a gun. But you know that anyway.

By: U238

U238 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

In playing Devil’s advocate, what is the “upside” to changing this rule?
We don’t have reported gun mishaps, we haven’t had a hijacking where the pilots gun was taken or used. We don’t, to my knowledge, have any applicable data to judge the merits for or against the armed pilot rule. That, in it’s self, can be a form of data, because nothing has happened, I suppose.
Still, what is the upside from removing the guns? I’d honestly like to see a compelling arguement for it.

By: carrick

carrick — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Buzz:

I wonder why guards in prisons aren’t allowed to carry guns?

I dunna. Why not ask this guy?

By: robert108

robert108 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The math is simple: armed pilots=no crashes into the Twin Towers or the Pentagon on 9/11. Even govt school educated lefties can do that math.