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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
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> > > Do you think private security guards would be better?
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> > Yes. Or armed passengers if the airline so chooses.
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> I'm still resolving that part of the issue for myself, but it puts me in
> mind of the other side of the coin: Since the airlines are primarily
> private corporations, and the aircraft are their property, they are well
> within their rights (correct me if I'm wrong) to restrict firearms on board
> their aircraft just as non-gov't airports are within their rights to
> restrict firearms within the airports. Even if, therefore, airlines allow
> passengers to be armed, couldn't the airports simply say "no weapons,"
> thereby making the question of onboard weapons irrelevant?
Yes. And a fully private system with airlines and airports each making
individual decisions on this may well be significantly more complex to
administer and track. At least at first.
(hmm... I'm flying to Hobby today... that means pack my flechette gun
instead of the tranq as Hobby bans tranqs in the terminal... later, while
enroute... Oh no, we got rerouted to Intercontinental... They REQUIRE tranqs
and ban flechettes...)
2 or three occurances of that and a few well placed lawsuits and it would
get straightened out. Heck it might shake out to all weapons banned, but it
would be the market deciding, which is (by definition :-) ) better than any
government decision. More democratic.
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| (...) Err...at the risk of being completely obtuse...I'm just curious: are you coming back to town this weekend? james, who doesn't know what either flechettes or tranqs are, but otherwise gets the point that firearm regulations under different (...) (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I'm still resolving that part of the issue for myself, but it puts me in mind of the other side of the coin: Since the airlines are primarily private corporations, and the aircraft are their property, they are well within their rights (correct (...) (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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