Comments on: Showdown at Concourse C: Should you be allowed to carry concealed weapons at the airport? http://www.upgradetravelbetter.com/2008/07/02/showdown-at-concourse-c-should-you-be-allowed-to-carry-concealed-weapons-at-the-airport/ Living the first class life -- at coach prices Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:21:15 +0000 hourly 1 By: Tim D. Smith http://www.upgradetravelbetter.com/2008/07/02/showdown-at-concourse-c-should-you-be-allowed-to-carry-concealed-weapons-at-the-airport/#comment-31474 Tim D. Smith Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:08:53 +0000 http://www.upgradetravelbetter.com/2008/07/02/showdown-at-concourse-c-should-you-be-allowed-to-carry-concealed-weapons-at-the-airport/#comment-31474 Thank you Mark for a polite response. The knife was sharp and almost no pain was felt :) Thank you Mark for a polite response. The knife was sharp and almost no pain was felt :)

]]> By: Mark Ashley http://www.upgradetravelbetter.com/2008/07/02/showdown-at-concourse-c-should-you-be-allowed-to-carry-concealed-weapons-at-the-airport/#comment-31438 Mark Ashley Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:43:44 +0000 http://www.upgradetravelbetter.com/2008/07/02/showdown-at-concourse-c-should-you-be-allowed-to-carry-concealed-weapons-at-the-airport/#comment-31438 Tim, I don't seek donations; I dispense any and all posts for free. But thank you for the business advice, and for sharing your views. Tim, I don’t seek donations; I dispense any and all posts for free. But thank you for the business advice, and for sharing your views.

]]> By: Tim D. Smith http://www.upgradetravelbetter.com/2008/07/02/showdown-at-concourse-c-should-you-be-allowed-to-carry-concealed-weapons-at-the-airport/#comment-31435 Tim D. Smith Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:09:40 +0000 http://www.upgradetravelbetter.com/2008/07/02/showdown-at-concourse-c-should-you-be-allowed-to-carry-concealed-weapons-at-the-airport/#comment-31435 If you wish donations from the public as a whole to help offset your costs and considerable talent then, in my ever humble opinion, you should be a politically neutral blogger. I completely agree with Major E, USMC as posted above. It's fine that you are anti gun, you just need to keep your liberal teeth in their holster. When was the last time someone in NY City was shot with a legal registered hand gun? Oh wait it was the police. Now I really feel safe. And I don't need to tell you NY City has the most strict gun laws in the country. Remember the last placed person in their Police academy is still allowed to carry a weapon. Most people I know who carry take that responsibility very seriously as they will have no government agency to cover their back side if they pull or use their weapon. If you wish donations from the public as a whole to help offset your costs and considerable talent then, in my ever humble opinion, you should be a politically neutral blogger.

I completely agree with Major E, USMC as posted above.

It’s fine that you are anti gun, you just need to keep your liberal teeth in their holster.

When was the last time someone in NY City was shot with a legal registered hand gun? Oh wait it was the police. Now I really feel safe. And I don’t need to tell you NY City has the most strict gun laws in the country. Remember the last placed person in their Police academy is still allowed to carry a weapon.

Most people I know who carry take that responsibility very seriously as they will have no government agency to cover their back side if they pull or use their weapon.

]]> By: Major E, USMC http://www.upgradetravelbetter.com/2008/07/02/showdown-at-concourse-c-should-you-be-allowed-to-carry-concealed-weapons-at-the-airport/#comment-26606 Major E, USMC Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:38:41 +0000 http://www.upgradetravelbetter.com/2008/07/02/showdown-at-concourse-c-should-you-be-allowed-to-carry-concealed-weapons-at-the-airport/#comment-26606 The author said: "And while I am no fan of the TSA, I’m less of a fan of walking around public spaces surrounded by people carrying loaded firearms." This shows surprising ignorance. A good person carrying a gun is still a good person and will not suddenly have the desire to hurt anyone around him or her. The only difference is that person can not only defend themselves from a violent lunatic, but the unarmed author as well who'd rather be a dead victim, then suffer the frighting idea of not knowing who around him is armed. As someone mentioned, the author already is surrounded by good citizens who are armed - the rate being about 1 out of 100 people in shall issue states. But, if in the desire to "feel safe" rather than "be safe", the authors wish is achieved and nobody is allowed to carry a concealed weapon, then the only people who will be carrying loaded weapons, as the author put it, will be criminals. And so the author then will know who is armed around him - only the criminals who do in fact have ill intent, and are grateful to the author for disarming their victims. The author said: “And while I am no fan of the TSA, I’m less of a fan of walking around public spaces surrounded by people carrying loaded firearms.”

This shows surprising ignorance. A good person carrying a gun is still a good person and will not suddenly have the desire to hurt anyone around him or her. The only difference is that person can not only defend themselves from a violent lunatic, but the unarmed author as well who’d rather be a dead victim, then suffer the frighting idea of not knowing who around him is armed.

As someone mentioned, the author already is surrounded by good citizens who are armed – the rate being about 1 out of 100 people in shall issue states.

But, if in the desire to “feel safe” rather than “be safe”, the authors wish is achieved and nobody is allowed to carry a concealed weapon, then the only people who will be carrying loaded weapons, as the author put it, will be criminals. And so the author then will know who is armed around him – only the criminals who do in fact have ill intent, and are grateful to the author for disarming their victims.

]]> By: cure http://www.upgradetravelbetter.com/2008/07/02/showdown-at-concourse-c-should-you-be-allowed-to-carry-concealed-weapons-at-the-airport/#comment-22380 cure Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:01:28 +0000 http://www.upgradetravelbetter.com/2008/07/02/showdown-at-concourse-c-should-you-be-allowed-to-carry-concealed-weapons-at-the-airport/#comment-22380 I don't really see the problem. If you've ever been to, I don't know, a parking lot or a grocery store in the US, you've been around a bunch of people carrying loaded firearms. Have you ever seen a shooting in that context? Do you think a ban would keep people who wanted to shoot up an airport from doing so? It's already illegal to shoot *a person*, so I can't imagine the marginal worry of violating a concealed weapons law would stop the perp! I don’t really see the problem. If you’ve ever been to, I don’t know, a parking lot or a grocery store in the US, you’ve been around a bunch of people carrying loaded firearms. Have you ever seen a shooting in that context? Do you think a ban would keep people who wanted to shoot up an airport from doing so? It’s already illegal to shoot *a person*, so I can’t imagine the marginal worry of violating a concealed weapons law would stop the perp!

]]> By: jason http://www.upgradetravelbetter.com/2008/07/02/showdown-at-concourse-c-should-you-be-allowed-to-carry-concealed-weapons-at-the-airport/#comment-22379 jason Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:28:58 +0000 http://www.upgradetravelbetter.com/2008/07/02/showdown-at-concourse-c-should-you-be-allowed-to-carry-concealed-weapons-at-the-airport/#comment-22379 Of course this is only on the "non secure" side of the airport... you know the side where in LA some nut job opened fire on the check-in desk for ELAL. Also the same side where you are required to check your firearms for transport. Some of the news outlets make it sound like its on both sides of the airport. Of course this is only on the “non secure” side of the airport… you know the side where in LA some nut job opened fire on the check-in desk for ELAL.

Also the same side where you are required to check your firearms for transport. Some of the news outlets make it sound like its on both sides of the airport.

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