Knife carrying passengers???

[Herbert H Gottlieb <herbgottlieb@JUNO.COM>]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 12:17:45 -0500 "Strickert, Rick"
<rstrickert@SIGNATURESCIENCE.COM> writes:
.  But allowing passengers to carry knives on a plane (or
> distributing them to each passenger, to be turned in at the
> destination)is something that needs to be considered.

Knife fights between passengers and terroristscould be a little
too bloody for my tastes.... that is unless the passengers are
also taught how to use a knife effectively in such a fight and
are taught some of the basic defences in their judo courses.

A more practical defense would be to have locked cockpits for the
pilots. Upon learning of the presence of terrorists, the pilots
would only have to release a sleep inducing gas into the cabin
that would harmlessly put all of the terrorists and passengers
into la la land until the airplane reaches its original destination.

Herb Gottlieb from New York City
(Where peaceful sleep is preferable to knife fights)