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Re: The *militia* saved flight 93 from a worse fate...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 21 Sep 2001 19:54:49 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Horst Lehner writes:
> Hello Chris,
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> > One might wonder how much less destruction there would have been on 11
> > September if some or many of the passengers had been armed.
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> Given the fact that even in the Sep. 11 disaster, less people were probably
> killed than are killed in a "normal" year by use of guns in the US, I tend
> to prefer NOT to legalize taking firearms into planes.
I think you're going to have a hard time proving that statistic to actually
be true, or if it is, that it's a causal link, or if it is a causal link,
that banning guns would actually make any difference (plowed ground alert).
However, on a less serious note, I support not allowing people to take
automobiles with them in their checked luggage. Automobiles are much more
deadly than guns...
But I'm not sure that I would support preventing french fries being brought
on board (I do that all the time) even though heart disease caused by
cholesterol is an even worse killer than automobiles are.
++Lar
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