Well, first off, it was 4 planes. The government wasn't responsible for "protecting" the planes. That's on the airport and airlines. TSA wasn't established until post 9/11/2001. FAA? their job is to keep planes from flying into each other and to ensure an equal number of safe takeoffs and landings. Next week we'll discuss how Bush managed to guide Katrina into the projects.
Oh geeze let's pull out some technicalities. I referred to the 2 sorry I didn't mention the others which makes my point even more anyway. And yes it was the GOVT responsibility to protect the planes. They had Federal guidelines in place that didn't even allow the airlines to protect their own investments with guns in the cockpits and such. I blame Federal policy yet again for being in places where they don't belong.
On any given day there are 87,000 flights in the airspace of America. Allowing pilots to pack heat in cockpits creates for the possibility of the same number of deaths created by 9/11. Come on Rex, you know from time to time there is pilot Bill, fresh from an all nighter with some hooker in Birmingham loaded with a fifth of James. You gonna give this potential heat? The Federal Government places rangers on flights to protect against all the possibilities but the question is, how you gonna man 87,000 flights daily? I would say that the skies are much safer today then they were 7 years ago. Pilots are sobering up and hookers have raised prices. :wink: No fluids over 3 OZ allowed! Room for disaster, you bet. Reducing the threat, never been better. If McCain really felt an overwhelming sense of fear from Al Qaeda, he would be taking Greyhound. McCain is an American POW, combat Veteran. Not saying that qualifies him for office but it damn sure qualifies him to replace John Wayne. If ever a man feared anything, McCain is the one I want to listen too in its regard. :911:
