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From: shebs@utah-cs.UUCP (Stanley Shebs)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: arming airliners
Message-ID: <1896@utah-cs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-Sep-83 15:40:11 EDT
Article-I.D.: utah-cs.1896
Posted: Wed Sep 14 15:40:11 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 15-Sep-83 00:30:21 EDT
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Great! A new arms race!  And we could put machine-gun turrets on buses
and pistols in stewardesses' pockets (or maybe strapped to their legs)
to foil hijackers!  Arm everyone to the teeth!

Actually, I'm surprised Tom didn't put a :-) after his article.
net.philosphy and net.politics readers are familiar with his declarations
about 'rationality', but arming airliners not for true self-defense,
but just to get off a "dying shot", is one of the most irrational
ideas I've heard all week (mind you, just *this* week).  Perhaps
a more rational course of action would be for airline passengers
to boycott KAL until it stops overflying hostile territory...

					stan the lep hacker
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