🚀 go-pugleaf

About six weeks ago I moved from Silver Spring, Md. to Gaithersburg,
Maryland. There were several reason why I had to move, mainly the
closing of an estate. I was kind of glad to get away from the 
excitement and insanity of the DC Beltway that was literally
about 1200 feet from my front door! And my neighborhood was
getting loud ... the people and the loud mufflers on the small
Hondas that were constantly speeding by.

In Gaithersburg things are much more peaceful. Not much noise
or excitement. I'm just situated on a very quiet street
with hardly any traffic. Good, right? Kind of. Until Sunday
evening. 

As I was upstairs I heard the roar of a plane. A loud plane.
A plane that was passing overhead very, very fast! Then I
could hear another loud plane. Ahh, now I knew what it was.
The Blue Angels were probably showing off because they were
leaving the air show from Andrews Air Force Base. Wait ... no,
that was yesterday! What the hell?

I knew something was going on and I really didn't want to know.
I wondered if another small plane had strayed into restricted
airspace near the Mall. About an hour later I turned on CNN
and there it was! Cameras live in Gaithersburg! Police
escorting four people away from a small plane -- sitting on
the runway at Montgomery Airpark. It happened again!

And now they want to open up National Airport for Commercial
and corporate flights ... but there must be a sky marshal
on every flight. Will this help things?

Here are a few questions ... and I know there's no (cut & dry)
correct answer, just opinions:

1) Were any of these planes (in the past two weeks) close enough
to be considered dangerous enough to shoot down?

2) Should the instructor of the 1st incident lose his license
forever?

3) If one of these planes were shot down, in the past two weeks,
would the Democrats go crazy and accuse Bush of being a maniac?

KM