Bending the Third Rail
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Where's The NRA When You Really Need Them
Yeah!

Why didn't I think of this?

Garrison Keillor has come up with the obvious answer to airport/airplane insecurity. It's been right under our nose the whole time, and is the identical solution to crime in the streets!
The way to stop terrorists on planes is to encourage passengers to bring loaded firearms aboard: guys in orange vests sitting in exit rows with deer rifles on their laps, ladies with Mr. Colt in their purses, kids with peashooters. Somebody wake up the NRA. Does the Second Amendment say "The right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed except on commercial airliners"? Where is the right wing when you really need them?

This way, if some guy in a burnoose sets up a chemistry lab in Row 24 and mixes hydrogen peroxide, sulfuric acid and acetone in a big beaker that is packed in 15 pounds of dry ice to keep it cool, and cooks up some triacetone triperoxide, or TATP, the passengers will be able, in the several hours it will take him to make the deadly explosive, to bring him under control, assuming the fumes haven't knocked Ahmed out. And they could nab the mastermind too, the monocled guy in first class petting the white cat.
Now. Like I said.

Why didn't I think of that?
Written at 8:49 AM by Greyhair.
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