Word: stuns
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Just when Americans were starting to calm down about air travel, Subash Gurung decided to fly from Chicago to Omaha, Neb. The jobless Nepalese man, here on an expired visa, got through security at O'Hare airport last week with five knives, a stun gun and a container marked TEAR GAS/PEPPER SPRAY. After a search at the gate uncovered the weapons, Gurung was arrested but soon released on bond. He was taken into custody only when he returned to O'Hare to pick up another bag, filled with more knives. And in the story's grim punch line...
...Jalalabad and Kandahar, U.S. warplanes unloaded laser-guided Maverick missiles and 5,000-lb. bunker busters to collapse limestone redoubts and bury anyone taking cover inside. Members of the U.S. Army's clandestine 800-man Delta Force tracked likely bin Laden hideouts, equipped with night-vision goggles and stun grenades, in case they had to creep inside the mountains, and laser pointers, in the hope that they could get warplanes to do the dirty, risky work. Bands of local Afghan fighters--whether driven by the desire to rid their country of bin Laden or win the $25 million bounty...
Many of us were just starting to feel okay about flying again. And then, this weekend a guy made it through security at Chicago?s O?Hare airport with nine knives and a stun gun packed away in his carry-on bag. The would-be passenger, a 27-year-old Nepalese man on his way to Omaha, told federal investigators he?d "forgotten" about the weapons, which he?d bought for self-defense...
...wrong end of a 21-0 halftime score and facing the end of its hopes of an undefeated season, the Crimson put together the largest comeback in Harvard history to stun the Big Green...
While those in favor of arming pilots with firearms may argue that a few dead passengers is a fair price to pay to prevent another tragedy like Sept. 11, they are ignoring much more sensible alternatives that would be just as effective. We can arm pilots with stun guns, which would still present a deterrent and would stop terrorists in the air without the risk of killing civilians...