Iraq is an armed society. Every family there is legally allowed to have an AK. Oddly, it hasn't produced this polite society you blather on about.

Let repeat this again, since you're stuck in some moronic Hollywood fantasy about shootouts in a plane with hijackers. Gun control has nothing to do with the 9/11 hijackings, and it would never had made a @#%$ difference. The hijackings in the 60's had nothing to do with passivity of the times, which is just stupid. The hijackers wanted to make a point, get some money, and get out of there. They were operating on a completely ideology and motivation. The real contribution those hijackings had was to make airport security become a much more serious thing.
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