Originally Posted by
LHR/MEL/Europe FF
no... it just strikes me as ironic that a pilot (well, I think they're a pilot, they said being in the cockpit) mentioned they carry a gun in the cockpit with them... which obviously goes to show some sort of security paranoia, yet at the same time complain about invasive tsa searching.
This is what anyone who complains about CCW falls back on. "Oh, they must be paranoid...why would ANYONE need to carry a gun". I hate to break it to you, but the same way TSA is ineffective at ensuring safety from terrorist attacks in flight, law enforcement on the whole is ineffective at preventing crime. They are VERY good at responding to it, collecting evidence and the judicial system is very good at prosecuting it. But they fail miserably at preventing it. (Which is not an attack on LEO's--it's attack on the system). Don't like the idea of CCW? You can fight to change the Constitution.