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Bush against arming pilots. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)

The New American

| March 25, 2002 | COPYRIGHT 2002 American Opinion Publishing, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Owing much of its political base to gun rights supporters, the Bush administration is now reluctantly beginning to show its true colors. Beginning very soon after September 11th, the Bush administration has been dropping hints that it won't allow pilots or members of airline crews to carry firearms. President Bush himself was "cool to the idea," according to a very early report. Now the Bush administration has made it very clear that, in spite of the horrors of September 11th, the federal government intends to continue its irrational policy of maintaining commercial airliners as Second Amendment-free zones. Never mind that an armed passenger or crew member might have averted the September 11th attacks.

On March 2nd, Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta told an interviewer from the Los Angeles Times that he's opposed to pilots' demands for firearms in cockpits for self-defense. Two days later, Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge ...

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