Segurança nos voos

Não sei se o AEI já reparou que tem um resident Scholar a escrever regularmente no Lewrockwell, seja como for John Lott tem sido uma das pessoas que mais tem combatido os argumentos contra o direito à organização da defesa pelas pessoas e empresas, os quais tiveram consequências bem trágicas no 11/9 ao impedir-se por legislação federal, a posse de armas pela tripulação e, em especial, pelos pilotos que têm de defender o acesso à cabine.

John Lott, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, has advised both the Airline Pilots Security Alliance and the Allied Pilots Association on security issues. He is the author of The Bias Against Guns (Regnery 2003).

Arm the Pilots

"The fears of bullets damaging planes are greatly exaggerated. As Ron Hinderberger, director of aviation safety at Boeing, testified before Congress: "Commercial airplane structure is designed with sufficient strength, redundancy, and damage tolerance that a single or even multiple handgun holes would not result in loss of an aircraft. A bullet hole in the fuselage skin would have little effect on cabin pressurization. Aircraft are designed to withstand much larger impacts."

Arming pilots is nothing new. Until the early 1960s, American commercial passenger pilots on any flight carrying U.S. mail were required to carry handguns. Indeed, U.S. pilots were still allowed to carry guns until as recently as 1987. There are no records that any of these pilots (either military or commercial) carrying guns have ever caused any significant problems"