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I see what he actually did now but my first reaction would be to go flat on the ground unfortunitely it seems he didn't =/ so yes he deserved exactly what he got and the marshals did their job.


He deserved to get killed for being mentally ill?

Gee, thanks Hitler. Lets just round up the bi-polar people and have them shot to save time.

It's not the marshall's fault he's mentally ill. They have a job to protect the people on that plane. He said he had a bomb, went for said bomb, blam! dead man. Sure, the wife told them he was bipolar but how did they know that she wasnt an accomplice?


Oh I don't know, not being completely fuc[b][/b]king brindead?

He ran OFF the plane, she tells them he's bipolar, but the thought process is what, exactly?

That it's more likely that it was an elaborate ruse by her so he'd have time to run OFF the plane, AWAY from the people, and detonate a bomb?

The air marshal wanted to shoot someone. That's who even considers taking that job. People that want to kill people. Just the way it is. A backpack sized bomb, in the open would have killed one person, the guy carrying it. If he had run ONTO the plane, killing him would make a lot more sense.

Sadly unless you were there for sure you don't know the timeline of when the wife actually told them he was bi-polar.
Then because most of the U.S is scared s[b][/b]hitless of every shadow and conspiracies are everywhere the Marshal would probably have to decide if the wife was in on it.

Don't you feel safer in this world when there are lots of people with guns running around?

Smash: Get your panties out of your upper-intestines. He wasn't shot for being Bi-polar he was shot because somewhere down the line someone forgot/didn't take their medication. Is it not supposed to be punishable by death? Of course not. Sadly, due to that that lapse, someone paid with their life.

Same thing happens when someone gets hit by a car crossing the street. Doesn't matter if you usually looked both ways before crossing. You F[u][/u]cked up once and that's the end.


FFS. I suck at actually one posting something.

Edited, Thu Dec 8 09:10:01 2005 by Diveos

Absolutely. Did he deserve to die? Certainly not. He was mentally ill and for whatever reason didn't take his medication. It was a horribly tragic incident. It's very sad that the circumstances led up to this.

However, air marshals are trained to react quickly and accuratly. They shoot to kill. Their reaction time in a real incident may only be fractions of a second. Not only do they have to unholster their gun and kill the person before they set off the bomb but they have to insure they injure as few other people in the process as possible.

The man presented himself as a threat to the other passengers safety. The Air marshals did what they were trained to do to preserve as many lives as they could.

And I'm fairly certain that if a convicted serial killer was loose and a situation came up where a law-enforcement officer had no weapon BUT his car then he'd be called a hero.

Deal with it. Accident happened and death occured.
Why don't you shake your fist in the air the next time you stub your toe and justify the morality of why the chair did it.

No Smash, By saying he had a bomb.

I bolded it so you wouldn't miss it this time.

Oh, I see. So the idea is to shoot all the people who tell us they have bombs then. Well. I feel safer allready.

Um, ya. Any person standing in an area crowded with people claiming he has a bomb in the bag he is reaching into should be stopped as quickly as possible by the nearest law enforcement officer. Is this such an unreasonable concept?

Do you have a source for that? I can't remember reading too many articles where Isreal successfully negotiated with a suicide bomber but I have seen plenty where they have killed him before he blew up his intended target.

Do you have a source for that? I can't remember reading too many articles where Isreal successfully negotiated with a suicide bomber but I have seen plenty where they have killed him before he blew up his intended target.


Were this guy a suicide bomber that would be a more compelling argument.

Also you've seen two, maybe three times the Isrealis have killed a suicide bomber. Probably one, actually, I imagein you just pulled "plenty" out of your *** arbitrarily.

The Isreali's haven't been any more sucessfull than anyone else in stoping suicide bombings. That's why they're building that assanine wall that won't be any more successfull either.

Shooting the guy sure stopped him.

Yup, he'l never say he has a bomb when he doesn't during a manic episode again.

god bless America.

Maybe they should have offed a few innocent bystanders, too. Because then THEY would never be able to blow up airplanes with their non existant bombs either.

Did it occur to any of you stupid motherfuc[b][/b]kers that his backpack HAD TO HAVE BEEN SCREENED BEFORE HE GOT ON THE PLANE?

Just curious.

Wow. Sooo.... how many times a week do you scream you have a bomb in a busy airport terminal and then start running?

About as often as anyone has ever said they have a bomb at an airport and actually had one.

Screeners miss things. We all know that. What if that backpack didn't go through the screeners, what if it was placed on the plane before the flight? Point is the air marshals don't know, and they have about .04 seconds to make their decision. One thing they do know is that dead people don't set off bombs no matter how they got it.

He could also rig it up to explode the next time someone calls pizza hut and says "heavy pepperoni". I would think the odds would be better he would rig the bomb up so that he can explode it himself in the place that would resault in the most catastrophic damage. As a matter of fact if I was an air marshall I would stake my life on it.