TO END TERRORISM, LET PERMIT HOLDERS CARRY GUNS ON PLANES | 2006-03-14
Every time I take off my belt at airport security, I keep thinking that the terrorists should send the security personnel a letter of thanks. If they didn't do that, the terrorists would like to.
What all that airport security guarantees is that if a terrorist wants to take over a plane, everyone on board is absolutely helpless against him.
The hundreds of thousands of people who have held concealed weapons permits for over a decade now have a MUCH better record with their guns than ANY police agency does. If you ever saw one permit holder do something stupid with his gun it would be on the front page coast-to-coast.
How many times have you seen or seen it reported the POLICE used their guns recklessly?
Why is this true?
Police work often destroys the nerves. A permit holder is not subject to the constant pressure a policeman is.
Ask any police psychiatrist whether every policeman he knows is fit to be armed twenty-four hours of every day.
They are all REQUIRED to be so armed. Look at THAT before you panic over "Letting citizens carry guns."
If terrorists are enough of a threat to make strip-searching grandmothers and all the rest necessary, the simple fact is that permit holders are demonstrably FAR less dangerous than that.
And even the possibility of ONE permit holder with a gun would destroy all the plans a terrorist can make.