Jim Choate[SMTP:ravage@ssz.com] wrote:
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Matthew Gaylor wrote:
What might have happened on Sept. 11 if this were truly The Land of the Free:
<http://www.tlknapp.net/bieser091101frames.html>
Go to the above url to view a cartoon created by Scott Bieser, proprietor of Liberty Artworx <http://www.libertyartworx.com/>.
Except they'd have had guns too...the plane needs lots of little holes and more dead bodies (with shooters hunkered down behind the seats). James Choate
Think it through Jim, if you can. What would actually happen is that there would not be an attempt to hijack the plane. The only reason the terrorists pulled it off on the first three was that the usual protocol for hijacks involves landing, and letting most/all of the passengers off unharmed. For disarmed passengers, the best option for survival was to anticipate this protocol, and sit tight. As soon as some of the passengers on plane 4 learned what a different protocol was in effect, the terrorists were doomed. If a hijack was attempted today, even against disarmed passengers by terrorists with guns there would be, in the words of one recent post 'entrails on the windows, even if the passengers were Quaker schoolgirls". A plane where there is a chance that a significant fraction of the passengers are armed (hopefully with frangible, low velocity ammo) is no longer a soft target, even to terrorists with guns. They best they can hope to do is crash the plane, without any precise selection of target. Peter Trei