9/03/03
Guns in the workplace and on planes

Retired Air Force Maj. John Borling, a U.S. Senate candidate in Illinois, asks whether a concealed handgun law might have stopped the attack last week in Chicago. The article in the Sun-Times notes:

"Would Chicago have been averted? Possibly," said retired Air Force Maj. John Borling. "If somebody had been able to take a gun from out from under the counter and defend themselves, that might have made a big difference."

CNN and CNNfn also had me on briefly yesterday to talk about arming pilots. Bill Tucker, the CNN correspondent, also took up the point that I made off air about this not being a new experiment and that we have an extensive history of pilots carrying guns on planes. See also another piece that I had on National Review Online yesterday.