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Originally posted by Porsche-O-Phile
True that. Nobody said they all are. However I think the more interesting (and telling) statistic would be "what percentage of the world's terrorists ARE Muslim" versus "what percentage of the world's Muslims are terrorists".
Clearly there's something about this Islam thing (or religion in general) that leads a disproportionate number of its "followers" to violent terrorist acts.
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Just make sure that you add that this sort of thing would never happen in Chicago. "Those" muslims are peaceful and a totally different sort of cat...
Sonic
A fair number of pilots have taken this into their own hands. They have taken their own vacation time, traveled to the school at their expense, bought the weapon themselves and gone through extensive training to carry weapons IN THE COCKPIT to defend themselves, the airplane and passengers.
You cannot put a sky marshall on every flight, there just are not enough available (know as a very good friend of mine is a SM) to cover every flight. ARM THE PILOTS!
The Federal law has stated since the 1930's that any airplane carrying US Mail the pilot should be armed to protect it, but this died out in the 1950's. Armed pilots have been in the planes for over 3 years and there has not been ONE incident in this time. If we are responsible enough to fly the plane, then please tell me why we are not responsible enough to carry a weapon in the cockpit?
Personally I wish that every flight crew member be armed, flight attendents included. Advertise the fact and tell anyone who even thinks that they want to hijack a plane about it. Hijacking a plane today is a death sentenance, and thats the way it should be.
We just make sure that they die without making themselves a martyr, so that they do not visit Allah, the 72 virgins or the gold...