Badges - Re: A Question For Everyone
- From: "William Taylor" <usms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <badges@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 22:47:18 -0400
Mike, that wasn't the question I didn't think. Should all LEO's be
permitted carriage on an airplane? I don't know the answer to that. The
question was do I feel safer now than before, before when you couldn't carry
a weapon on an aircraft and I could, so that part hasn't changed. I feel
safer because the remainder of the plane's passengers are not going to let
some idiot with a box cutter take over the plane and would gang beat the
terrorist into the deck no matter how many got cut doing so. That for me is
the difference and that is why I feel safer. Not because of anything the TSA
is doing in the US and certainly not for what the other countries are doing
for flights coming in. When I get on a plane with my weapon, I always look
around for the guys I feel like I could count on if something bad happened
and I always find some that I am certain would be right there with me if I
had to do something.
Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: badges-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:badges-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Michael Volling
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 9:56 PM
To: badges@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Badges - Re: A Question For Everyone
Bill,
I'm not trying to start an argument or anything so don't take this the wrong
way, but I think the reason you feel safer is because you're a Fed and can
carry your weapon on the plane with no questions asked.
I've flown on-duty a half dozen or so times since 9/11carry when I do;
however, when I'm not on-duty I have to check the weapon in my luggage,
worry about it being stolen, and feel like I'm flying naked.
In short, it's as if one day I'm the police but the next I'm a piece of
shit.
I understand the fact that local agencies have different training policies,
different Q courses of fire, etc. I know it probably isn't realistic that
this will change any time soon, but it would be great if 218 was extended to
include air travel.
OK....I feel better now.
Mike
On Aug 29, 2011, at 8:39 PM, William Taylor wrote:
> I feel safer, I fly often and have a huge amount of confidence in my
> fellow passengers that if any asshole acts up and endangers the flight
> that we as a group would beat anyone causing the kind of crap that
> happened on 9/11 to death once I ran out of ammunition. I feel no
> safer as a result of anything TSA has done. It's the remainder of us that
makes us all safer.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: badges-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:badges-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of CarlGlas@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 9:11 PM
> To: badges@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Badges - A Question For Everyone
>
> As we approach the tenth anniversary of the tragedy of September 11,
> 2001, I have a question to ask of each of you.
>
> With the creation of Homeland Security, the Transportation Security
> Administration, and all the other federal agencies that were created
> with the intentions of making us all feel safer, do you?
>
> Do you feel any safer or secure today than you did on September 10, 2001?
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> The Badges Law Enforcement Discussion Group - Est. 1997
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> The Badges Law Enforcement Discussion Group - Est. 1997
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The Badges Law Enforcement Discussion Group - Est. 1997
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