I stand corrected, so let me restate, allowing guns on board would also mean the terrorists would have had guns too and a gun fight on board a pressurized plane would probably caused it to crash anyway.
On Jan 11, 11:54 am, "M. Johnson" <[email protected]> wrote: > Lewis > shooting a gun in a pressurized cabin would have the same effect as > a bomb, so claiming if Americans could carry guns on plains > <snip>Explosive decompression can occur when a bullet is fired through the > fuselage of a pressurized airplane, causing the hole to grow dramatically and > possibly cause the plane to break up as seen in movies.bustedThe pressure is > not high enough and the hole is too small. Explosive decompression only > occurred when a hole the size of a window was made with explosives. Even > then, the rush of air could not suck Buster completely out of the hole. > Lastly, there are proven instances of explosive decompression where the plane > was still able to maintain control and land.(This myth was revisited > inepisode 38and it was > re-busted.)http://mythbustersresults.com/episode10<sigh> > One must first shed the statist indoctrination ... > Regard$, > --MJ > The main issue in present-day political struggles > is whether society should be organized on the basis > of private ownership of the means of production > (capitalism, the market system) or on the basis > of public control of the means of production > (socialism, communism, planned economy). Capitalism > means free enterprise, sovereignty of the consumers > in economic matters, and sovereignty of the voters > in political matters. Socialism means full government > control of every sphere of the individual's life and > the unrestricted supremacy of the government in its > capacity as central board of production management. > There is no compromise possible between these two > systems. Contrary to popular fallacy there is no > middle way, no third system possible as a pattern > of a permanent social order. The citizens must > choose between capitalism and socialism or, as > many Americans say, between the American and the > Russian way of life. -- Ludwig von Mises, Bureaucracy [1944]
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