Leon Richard of Farmington, ME That said. Jet airliners are among the most heavily regulated and inspected pieces of equipment in existence today. It takes years of training and licensing to operate one. They are subjected to some of the most intense security we know, even prior to 09/11. Box cutters are available in any hardware store and most corner stores.

Put together on 09/11, they were the weapons of choice in the worst mass murder/suicide in the history of the world.

And anyone with a gun on each plane could have stopped the whole thing in its tracks. Hmmm.

Objections based on "missing", "shooting a hole in the skin of the plane", the person being "overpowered" and the gun being taken away, are moot. Driving a plane through a building renders every objection irrelevant.

It simply cannot be allowed to happen again. Period.report abuse

Leon Richard of Farmington, ME Sex harms no-one but the two people who partake in it? Really now?

Take a look at the welfare roles in the state friend. Add up the amount of money we spend on corrections and mental health because kids grew up unwanted, unsupervised, and unfed. Every heard of AIDS, Hepatitis, Chlamydia, Herpes, and syphilis? Cervical cancer?

Sex harms the entire society when it is engaged in in an unrestrained and carefree manner with strangers and random people.

The bill is stupid, and redundant. It's already against the law to sell a gun to a minor. At best it's a feel good thing for those who want desperately to "do something" about crime, but haven't got a clue as to the true causes and contributing factors.

At worse, the bill is a back door method of intruding into, and regulating, "private" sales of firearms between people who are not gun dealers.

Guns are about as related to crime as flies are to garbage. Neither one causes the other, regardless of the "correlation". Eliminating one does nothing with regard to the other.

Stop and consider for a second, the logic of writing a law regulating something that harms nobody unless someone undertakes a deliberate act with it. With the intention of dissuading the actors from committing the crime in the first place. If those who would commit the crime gave a darn about the law in the first place, we wouldn't be having the conversation, would we?

It's like "gun free zones". Stupid and irrational. The murderers do not care about the law or rule prohibiting guns where they are going to do their mayhem.

Find one instant where someone has come forward and said, "I was going to go over there and shoot a bunch of people. But, when I got there I saw a sign that said, "No Firearms". So, I came home and didn't shoot anybody. DUH.report abuse

Eliza of Farmington, ME Personally, I would rather have children be well-educated on safe sex & put that knowledge into practice than to allow them to purchase guns. Sex harms no one but the 2 people who partake in it... guns (well, the people using them) cause a lot more damage. I do see the double standard, but I don't feel as though that argument holds any validity in this sort of situation.report abuse

Magnum Ralph of Eureka, ME Kidatheart points out a blatant double standard. The Left wants kids to copulate freely, and will give them the condoms and the knowledge (without parental consent) yet pushes gun legislation prohibiting them from buying firearms!

Just say "NO!" to both. Right on, Rocky!report abuse