OBAMA EFFORT TO END ARMED PILOTS PROGRAM AN OUTRAGE

[justashooter 430]

NEWS RELEASE

OBAMA EFFORT TO END ARMED PILOTS PROGRAM AN OUTRAGE, SAYS CCRKBA

BELLEVUE, WA – A revelation by the Washington Times that President Barack Obama is trying to quietly end the armed pilot program, making air travel more vulnerable to terrorist attack, should outrage travelers, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.

“The Washington Times nailed it,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, who proposed arming pilots just hours after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and championed the armed pilot program. “ What Obama is doing is risking public safety, as the newspaper put it, ‘in the name of an anti-gun ideology’.”

The newspaper reported in its Tuesday edition that President Obama is “quietly ending the federal firearms program” by diverting some $2 million from the training program to hire “supervisory” staff, whose job, it appears, will be to harass armed pilots through unnecessary field inspections.

“How dare the president, or anybody in his administration, take measures to erode the safety of air travelers,” Gottlieb questioned. “The armed pilot program provides a guaranteed level of security to the public. There may or may not be an air marshal aboard every airplane, but there is definitely a pilot in the cockpit.

“We trust commercial airline pilots with $500 million aircraft,” he continued. “We can certainly trust them with $500 pistols to defend those planes, and th e lives of their passengers.

“Certain individuals have never liked the armed pilot program,” Gottlieb acknowledged. “These anti-gun, anti-self-defense bureaucrats seem more interested in their own power, and protecting their little empires, than they are in protecting the public. And now, Obama is catering to their anti-gun bigotry.”

Call the White House at (202) 456-1111, or send a comment by visiting www.whitehouse.gov/contact.

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Outrageous, if true.

Key words being "if true".

[Dan J 277]

Do you want the pilot to fly the plane or be a cop? We already have armed air marshals on the plane who's job it is to handle this kind of thing. Let the pilot handle the flying, and make sure the cockpit cannot be breached by a would be hijacker.

[Ban Hammer 14,273]

anyone got a link?

Do you want the pilot to fly the plane or be a cop? We already have armed air marshals on the plane who's job it is to handle this kind of thing. Let the pilot handle the flying, and make sure the cockpit cannot be breached by a would be hijacker.

if there are marshals on the plane.

the same flawed logic could be applied to people owning guns for personal protection while there are cops.

[Niels Bohr 72]

You what would've been safer? Have all passenger equipped themselves with GUNS!

[Craneman 2]

If any pilot wanted to do harm he would not need a gun.

I fly all the time, just flew to Brasil Thursday returne Yesterday, i for one would feel much safer if the pilot were armed.

I trust him with my life enough to fly me 5000 miles.

Air marshals are not on every flight, you are lucky if it one in 10.

Where were the air Marshals on 9-11 four planes and not one air marshal!

Do you want the pilot to fly the plane or be a cop? We already have armed air marshals on the plane who's job it is to handle this kind of thing. Let the pilot handle the flying, and make sure the cockpit cannot be breached by a would be hijacker.

[justashooter 430]

removing the funding, in this case, is an effective end to the program.

every pilot who carries must attend training equivalent to what in pennsylvania is called ACT325. this is the training that police officers have to take in order to carry a gun in a law enforcement occupation in the commonwealth. every pilot who carries must also take periodic refreshers and perform live firing exercises.

remove the funding, and there is no program. remove the program, and after a little while, nobody is legally "qualified".

[Niels Bohr 72]

Nah. Everyone who qualifies for a gun permit qualifies for a gun. Let's be hardcore Republican and carry our guns into the plane.

[Ban Hammer 14,273]

Nah. Everyone who qualifies for a gun permit qualifies for a gun. Let's be hardcore Republican and carry our guns into the plane.

so only republicans carry guns?

[Niels Bohr 72]

Nah. Everyone who qualifies for a gun permit qualifies for a gun. Let's be hardcore Republican and carry our guns into the plane.

so only republicans carry guns?

[Heracles 417]

Outrageous, if true.

Key words being "if true".

Of course. When it comes to Obama it's always an "if true" situation.

When it came to bush, by default, guilty as charge. Regardless of the actual liberal conspiracy for the month.