http://www.alliedpilots.org/
ATTENTION : TFL' ers!
Please--PLEASE--please !
SIGN THE PETITION TO ARM OUR PILOTS at
www.alliedpilots.org
5 , count them , five pilot's unions have banded together
in a --- LAST DITCH EFFORT --- to get action on arming our
pilots with real handguns. This petition started 4/9/02.
I just added my name as petitioner # 7948 , but we should be able to do much , much better than that. [ 4/14/02]
PLease copy and paste,that is , post this announcement on any bulliton board, message board or chat room you wish and email it to your friends.
Sinoppsis of recient history from www.gunowners.org April 25,2002 paper [The Gun Owner] concerning this issue follows.
Headline:
GOA pushing Transportation Dept. to Implement Armed Pilot's Law
After spending countless dollars & man hours on beefing up airport security in a vain attempt to prevent weapons getting onto
planes, 12/01 a Florida man, Barry Burnstein, with a loaded pistol in his carry on lugage boarded not one but two flights before getting arrested while boarding yet a third flight.
We can depend on airport security to keep us safe---NOT!
A federal investigator in southern Fla. was able to carry 3 pocket knives through airport security without getting caught.
Sept 2001, a Tenn. man with a handgun in his pocket got through
Alanta, GA's Hartsfield Airport security.
In Nov 2001 , Pres Bush signed into law the senate & house bills
authorizing armed pilots , but 5 months later our pilots are still unarmed and defenseless.
THE HOLD UP IS THIS :
The law requires the U.S.Transportation Dept. of which the FCC
is a subsidiary, to approve a program for arming pilots.
Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta , the lone Democrat in Bush's cabinet, who heads up the u.s. transportation dept, along with Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge, have expressed their contempt for the Second Ammendment and for the Armed Pilot's Law which Congress
overwelmingly approved and President Bush signed into law.
Not a suprising attitude for a Democrat.
Sec. Norman Mineta's anti gun rights comments are especially troubling because his department is charged with implementing the Armed Pilot's Law.
Here is the situation:
Congress wants pilots to carry guns. The President approved by signing the bill into law.77 % of the American people approve, even those who otherwise support gun control and 73 % of the pilot's favor carry of firearms on board planes.
But Nov 2001 was 5 months ago and anti gun rights Democrat Norman Mineta
seems to need a good hard push,
[ more like dragging both feet,kicking and screaming], in the right direction.
If planes are still being hijacked and crashed into large buildings full of innocent people, if passengers are needlessly dieing due to defenseless and unarmed pilots one year from now, we will all know to blame the anti gun rights democrat, Sec. of Transportation Norman Mineta for placing a political anti gun rights agenda before the welfare and consideration of American's lives.
Please sigh the petition at http://www.alliedpilots.org/
ATTENTION : TFL' ers!
Please--PLEASE--please !
SIGN THE PETITION TO ARM OUR PILOTS at
www.alliedpilots.org
5 , count them , five pilot's unions have banded together
in a --- LAST DITCH EFFORT --- to get action on arming our
pilots with real handguns. This petition started 4/9/02.
I just added my name as petitioner # 7948 , but we should be able to do much , much better than that. [ 4/14/02]
PLease copy and paste,that is , post this announcement on any bulliton board, message board or chat room you wish and email it to your friends.
Sinoppsis of recient history from www.gunowners.org April 25,2002 paper [The Gun Owner] concerning this issue follows.
Headline:
GOA pushing Transportation Dept. to Implement Armed Pilot's Law
After spending countless dollars & man hours on beefing up airport security in a vain attempt to prevent weapons getting onto
planes, 12/01 a Florida man, Barry Burnstein, with a loaded pistol in his carry on lugage boarded not one but two flights before getting arrested while boarding yet a third flight.
We can depend on airport security to keep us safe---NOT!
A federal investigator in southern Fla. was able to carry 3 pocket knives through airport security without getting caught.
Sept 2001, a Tenn. man with a handgun in his pocket got through
Alanta, GA's Hartsfield Airport security.
In Nov 2001 , Pres Bush signed into law the senate & house bills
authorizing armed pilots , but 5 months later our pilots are still unarmed and defenseless.
THE HOLD UP IS THIS :
The law requires the U.S.Transportation Dept. of which the FCC
is a subsidiary, to approve a program for arming pilots.
Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta , the lone Democrat in Bush's cabinet, who heads up the u.s. transportation dept, along with Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge, have expressed their contempt for the Second Ammendment and for the Armed Pilot's Law which Congress
overwelmingly approved and President Bush signed into law.
Not a suprising attitude for a Democrat.
Sec. Norman Mineta's anti gun rights comments are especially troubling because his department is charged with implementing the Armed Pilot's Law.
Here is the situation:
Congress wants pilots to carry guns. The President approved by signing the bill into law.77 % of the American people approve, even those who otherwise support gun control and 73 % of the pilot's favor carry of firearms on board planes.
But Nov 2001 was 5 months ago and anti gun rights Democrat Norman Mineta
seems to need a good hard push,
[ more like dragging both feet,kicking and screaming], in the right direction.
If planes are still being hijacked and crashed into large buildings full of innocent people, if passengers are needlessly dieing due to defenseless and unarmed pilots one year from now, we will all know to blame the anti gun rights democrat, Sec. of Transportation Norman Mineta for placing a political anti gun rights agenda before the welfare and consideration of American's lives.
Please sigh the petition at http://www.alliedpilots.org/
