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Originally posted by Mag Steelglass:
Actually, more of what I was trying to say was that passengers should be required to carry some sort of weapons on planes. Seeing as missed shots from guns could depressurize everything and such, I've started thinking knives. I think airport security works the wrong way. People can still smuggle weapons through, and then it's easy for them to hijack planes, as they're the only ones with weapons. If everybody had a weapon, hijackers would have to be able to hold off a crapload of passengers if they wanted to be successful.
Actually, more of what I was trying to say was that passengers should be required to carry some sort of weapons on planes. Seeing as missed shots from guns could depressurize everything and such, I've started thinking knives. I think airport security works the wrong way. People can still smuggle weapons through, and then it's easy for them to hijack planes, as they're the only ones with weapons. If everybody had a weapon, hijackers would have to be able to hold off a crapload of passengers if they wanted to be successful.
That would involve a lot of trust coming from both the government and the people, and that just isn't going to happen. While it is likely that a system like this would work out, there are just too many x-factors for any policy maker to go along with it, and let's face it: most American civilians are too cowardly and too stupid to see the benefits and make it work.
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And on the morality of the terrorists' actions, I don't think anybody can really be truly evil and wrong, etc.. People just can't do things against their own moral values without feeling guilty. In this case, the terrorists thought that they were doing the right thing, sacraficing their lives for a noble cause and such. People that do this sort of thing are mentally sick or are having very very strong emotions about things, hate being the emotion in this case. And I think that hate has been spurred by the US fiddling around in the middle east in matters where it has no business and generally screwing things up for a lot of people over there.
It's funny to see the laws of nature coming out in 'civilized' society, isn't it?
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