Originally Posted by laguardiaguy
GUNS ARE DANGEROUS ON AIRPLANES. PERIOD.
Guns are only as dangerous as the person exercising control over them. PERIOD. A gun has no ability to discharge itself, someone must exercise an action in order to discharge a gun.
More appropriately, IGNORANT PEOPLE WITH GUNS ARE DANGEROUS. PERIOD.
Originally Posted by laguardiaguy
If one goes off accidently, or otherwise, it can pierce the body of the plane and kill many, many people.
This is just not true. Hollywood hype has caused this misconception, piercing the outer skin of a pressurized aircraft with a bullet WILL NOT cause the airplane to come apart and kill many, many people. It will cause rapid decompression, freezing cold temps, and lack of oxygen depending on the altitude of the plane at the time. However if you had listened to the safety dance in the beginning, you would know how to survive rapid decompression, and the lack of oxygen. Although I'll give you the fact that there is nothing to do about the well below zero outside air tempurature. Your single shot pierces skin, downs passenger jet scenario is survivable, although undesirable.
