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"trebor@sirius.com.no.more" <user@example.com> writes:

>Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> wrote:

>>If those poor souls on those airplanes had been armed, the World 
>>Trade Center would still be standing this morning.  Diane 
>>Feinstein and her ilk are mass murderers.  They directly support 
>>this kind of terrorism.

>The hijackers were armed only with knives. Had the fifty some passengers
>in each of the planes wanted to overpower them, they would have. But
>they didn't. And had the passengers carried guns, odds are they wouldn't
>have had the guts to use them.

In light of what we know now, some of those unarmed passengers
did perform very brave actions.  I expect the passengers on the
first planes thought it was a hijacking for money, DB Cooper-style,
rather than near-certain death, and by the time they realized otherwise
it was too late.

Anyway.

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