<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by swise:
--- And it's why I'm in favor of no state-imposed security, or, if the airline feels like covering their hineys, completely privatized security.
Consumers can choose to fly on the plane with no security if they so desire, or if they are okay with giving up some of their freedoms in exchange for making someone else primarily responsible for their safety, they can fly on the planes with security. Customers flying to states with reciprocity could carry on the plane, if they had a permit to do so.
We still have this freedom in the charter market at least. Have there been any terrorism-related accidents on charter flights?
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Actually, charter flights are screened in the same manner as non-charter flights. There is no place on any flight for guns, period. Bullets, unlike punches, cannot be pulled back once fired. Neither air marshalls nor pilots should be armed. The states rights argument is fine for intrastate flights, but interstate flights fall under the Federal umbrella as they should. However, since this thread was about plastic cups being taken through the wtmd and that has been answered, maybe we should let this one drop since there are wildly differing opinions on it.
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