[FPSPACE] JimO's article..a question about it (Guns in space)

[Heinz Janssen]

But he wasn't a mission commander.

Best wishes
Heinz Janssen, Wittmund, Germany

 "David C. Fowler" <mailto:dcfowler at uoregon.edu> schrieb:
> Chuck Brady, last summer:
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> http://www.thepilot.com/stories/20060727/news/local/072806Brady.html
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> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:30:08 -0500, "Peter Pesavento" <mailto:pjp961 at svol.net> wrote:
> > JimO:
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> > Can you expand upon the following paragraph with more comments? I haven't
> > heard this before. What time frame did this event take place with a
> > threatened suicide? Before 2000? After 2000?
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> > Quote below:
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> > "..
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> > Perhaps a year or so ago, nobody would have raised an eyebrow over "trained
> > spacefarers" being able to grab a gun at will, for whatever reason they felt
> > like. But in the wake of the past year's tragic violence
> > <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20167011/> involving professional astronauts
> > and space center veterans, and in light of stories now surfacing over
> > psychological crises on past missions (including one threatened suicide that
> > the mission commander took very seriously), the open access to such lethal
> > hardware needs reappraisal. 
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> > ..."
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> > Thanks in advance.
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