The House just passed an amendment in its Homeland Security appropriations bill that would boost funding for armed-pilot training by $10 million. That throws a sharp rebuke at both the TSA and the Obama administration, which proposed chopping financing in half.
Here is a fine example of a perfect weapon but it would be a bad thing if a pilot shot, missed the bad guy, and then penetrated the pressurized compartment of the aircraft at high altitude:
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
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Martin Ent Inc wrote: Myth Busters had a show on that. Not the result Hollywood makes it out to be.
That busted a myth for me. Pretty scary to know our aircraft are already full of holes.
Stealing a pistol? They have special holsters that make it very difficult for anyone else to draw from. Cops were too often getting killed by their own sidearms so holster makers stepped up with new designs.
Besides if a hijacker took over my plane and was going to fly it into a building, I would risk my own death trying to tackle him. Post 9/11 ramped up the hero response for hijack victims.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
FredHayek wrote: Stealing a pistol? They have special holsters that make it very difficult for anyone else to draw from. Cops were too often getting killed by their own sidearms so holster makers stepped up with new designs.
How difficult is it to draw when three or four guys pounce on the pilot and hold him down and one reaches over and takes his pistol? But I'm thinking they would probably leave it in the cockpit when they stretch their legs. There's always the air marshal as a deterrent.
It is difficult to draw unless you are in the perfect, correct posistion. But I think you are right, IIRC, the TSA wants the pilots to carry their pistols in a lockbox and leave them in the cockpit.
And there isn't always an air marshall, less than 50% chance.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
