AA flight attendant arrested at ORD checkpoint on Friday with gun

[FWAAA]

In court today, FA's attorney says that her husband must have left the gun in her bag:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-flight-attendants-husband-left-gun-in-bag-attorney-says-20121124,0,1153142.story

65 years old, been a flight attendant for 44 years, never been arrested. And her husband sets her up for her first arrest. Ouch.

 

[jersey777]

I read that she is on the VEOP list. I wonder if she still gets the 40 grand.

 

[ContUNITEus]

I feel really sorry for the F/A, but then again, this is just one more example of how guns destroy lives. Nothing good ever comes out of owning a gun, but what can I say, you American's are all about your first amendment right.

 

[Deleted member 14439]

MOLON LABE!

 

[ContUNITEus]

Well, somebody now took hers (or her husbands if you will), her freedom and possibly her job.

So MOLON away....

 

[FWAAA]

I feel really sorry for the F/A, but then again, this is just one more example of how guns destroy lives. Nothing good ever comes out of owning a gun, but what can I say, you American's are all about your first amendment right.

I think you meant to say "your second amendment right," not first.

If you're gonna lecture "you Americans" about our Constitutional rights, at least read it first.

 

[ContUNITEus]

Not a lecture - an opinion
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and I honesty don't care what law it is - it's a cultural thing, and I get it.... (American + NO-GUN = NO-GO)

Just pointing out the benefits of having a gun as constantly portrayed by the news outlets, just like with the OP story.
So, got a gun? Gotta deal with the consequences if something goes wrong. Too bad for her... Next gun related story please....

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Aside from that, if the only word that stood out to anyone reading my response was the word "American," then they have an ego problem.

 

[WNMECH]

Aside from that, if the only word that stood out to anyone reading my response was the word "American," then they have an ego problem.

The only word that stood out to me was "first".
It just told me that you don't know what you are talking about.

 

[lineguy43]

I feel really sorry for the F/A, but then again, this is just one more example of how guns destroy lives. Nothing good ever comes out of owning a gun, but what can I say, you American's are all about your first amendment right.

Guess you are entitled to your opinion. But a gun is just an object much like a car you can kill with both if you are irresponsible. I knew a guy I worked with a former NW mechanic his soon to be ex wife packed a loaded gun in his lunch box hoping he would be caught..But he came in the employee entrance and never went through security and found it when he opened his lunch box. So again is it the guns fault?

 

[ContUNITEus]

...So again is it the guns fault?

Somewhere deep inside your rationale, you answered your own question.

 

[Bob Owens]

Guess you are entitled to your opinion. But a gun is just an object much like a car you can kill with both if you are irresponsible. I knew a guy I worked with a former NW mechanic his soon to be ex wife packed a loaded gun in his lunch box hoping he would be caught..But he came in the employee entrance and never went through security and found it when he opened his lunch box. So again is it the guns fault?

Bet nobody ever opened a lunch box and found a car!

 

[ContUNITEus]

OK

Let's try this another way:

Throughout the years, I have asked some people here in the USA why they own guns or want to own guns. An overwhelming majority have come back to me with something in line with "because I am an American, and I have the right to."

It really irked me that most people I asked gave me a non-sense reason as above, and that is what I was referring to when I responded to the OP.

You see this perfectly illustrated in the response that was given with the phrase "Molon Labe." Which I interpreted as "it's my right. Go try to take it away from me."

As for the error in first/second/third amendment or whatever it is, it is irrelevant to me as I am not an American, and haven't studied to become one.

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Now, back on the subject....

Why do YOU own a gun? (if you do)

 

[DNTULSA]

OK

Let's try this another way:

Throughout the years, I have asked some people here in the USA why they own guns or want to own guns. An overwhelming majority have come back to me with something in line with "because I am an American, and I have the right to."

It really irked me that most people I asked gave me a non-sense reason as above, and that is what I was referring to when I responded to the OP.

You see this perfectly illustrated in the response that was given with the phrase "Molon Labe." Which I interpreted as "it's my right. Go try to take it away from me."

As for the error in first/second/third amendment or whatever it is, it is irrelevant to me as I am not an American, and haven't studied to become one.

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Now, back on the subject....

Why do YOU own a gun? (if you do)

You are not an American?

Why then are you on the American Airlines board spouting off?

What country are you from?

 

[Frank Szabo]

OK

Let's try this another way:

Throughout the years, I have asked some people here in the USA why they own guns or want to own guns. An overwhelming majority have come back to me with something in line with "because I am an American, and I have the right to."

It really irked me that most people I asked gave me a non-sense reason as above, and that is what I was referring to when I responded to the OP.

You see this perfectly illustrated in the response that was given with the phrase "Molon Labe." Which I interpreted as "it's my right. Go try to take it away from me."

That's exactly what it means - since you're so "all-knowing", where did the phrase come from?

As for the error in first/second/third amendment or whatever it is, it is irrelevant to me as I am not an American, and haven't studied to become one.

To understand the reasoning behind this Right as written into the US Constitution, Second Amendment, by the Founders, you have a helluva lot of reading to do - trying to explain it to your kind is a waste of effort.

I have no problem with debating any issue with an admitted foreign subject but do try to learn a bit about your opponent's point of view before you open your yap, proving yourself a self-righteous douchenozzle.

Now, back on the subject....

Why do YOU own a gun? (if you do)

I own weapons because of people like you who would impose Tyrannic Rule over citizens who, after being disarmed, are no more than subjects. I took an oath, as did many other years ago, to, amongst other things, "Protect and Defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, both foreign and domestic".

My country and its values are under attack from within and without and that oath did not have with it any expiration date, as I recollect.

Since you're not "studying" our Founding Documents", I offer the following for your reading from our Declaration of Independence:

"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."


Our Founders knew well that times would change but that Human Nature would not. They foresaw those, like you, who would try to tear apart what they created and wrote the Second Amendment to deal with the problem.

It's understandable why socialists, liberals, communists, social democrats, et cetera and et alia don't like their subjects to be armed - the British thought little of it in the 1700s and tried to disarm the Colonies. Freedom won, however, and probably will again if tested.

Concern yourself with your own country.

 

[jersey777]

You are really scary. Maybe your screen name should be Ted Kaczynski....you both show that paranoia trait.