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[spiriteagle99 at hotmail.com (Jim and/or Ginny Owen)]

efield@charter.net wrote:
>
>Anyone who is committed to killing a plane full of people and willing top
>die in the process will succeed eventually. All the added secureity just is
>just a bother to the rest of the public. With the proper training you hands
>are deadly weapons. Will we be required to check them next??

So ------- you maybe want to make it as easy as possible for them to do so?  
  You assume that the fanatics are smart enough to outwit ALL security.  And 
that's not true.  Too some degree, it's a numbers game.  In Israel they 
don't catch aLL the fanatics - but they stop a lot more than you'll ever 
hear about.  Same story in Iraq - you hear about the people they kill - but 
you don't hear about the ones we kill.  Your basic assumption is wrong -

>With the proper training you hands
>are deadly weapons. Will we be required to check them next??

Yeah - but I'll take my chances with that.  There's a LARGE difference 
between facing someone (even a trained someone) mano a mano - and facing a 
weapons specialist.  Your chances of survival drop like a rock in the second 
case.  Again - your basic assumption is wrong -

All that being said - the state of American security is still pitiful.  And 
I'll keep on doing whatever I can to close the loopholes.  You may be 
annoyed by the security.  That's tough.  But I care enough - even about you 
- to do what I can to keep you (or what's left of you) from being identified 
by my friend the dentist whose specialty is identifying the remains of plane 
crash victims.  He appreciates that even if you don't.  <VBG>

Walk softly,
Jim

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