Re: Student arrested over Counter Strike map

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Sat, 5 May 2007, Brian Loe wrote:

> On 5/4/07, Jeffrey Sharpe <jsharpe () cyberlynk net> wrote:
>
> > Granted that guns and knives on a plane are bad things all around when you
> > have people willing to die to kill others, but what about pepper spray?  Not
> > generally considered as deadly, but for the most part will incapacitate
> > someone.  I would be more than willing to let people have pepper spray on an
> > airplane that I am on.  Sure, it could get bad if there is an issue with
> > someone with bad intentions, but which is better, to have a bunch of people
> > that have been spraying pepper spray around like crazy, or a plane being
> > crashed into a building?
>
> If the airlines turned up the air exchange rate on their flights, you
> wouldn't even know that pepper spray had been let loose. Before they
> banned smoking (to save money, btw), you never needed to know.
>
> And again, people who want to do bad things will do them. Banning
> weapons that can be used in defense of life does NOTHING but disallow
> the good guys from protecting themselves. I don't know how many
> examples of this people need before they wake up to this simple fact,
> for me I only needed to understand the basic logic of the issue.

And that's why I want to be able to carry my hand grenades onto an 
airplane.

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