Obama is Diverting Money From the Armed Pilots Program

  President Obama has begun his attack on the second amendment, he is doing it subtly but he is doing it nonetheless. President Obama has begun diverting $2 million away from the Armed Pilots Program and has begun sending this money to fund field inspections of pilots.

  The Armed Pilots Program is a program that trains pilots and allows them to carry guns in the cockpit. This is the president’s way of phasing out the program without actually having to come out against it. He will just let the program die a slow death and hope that second amendment advocates don’t hear about it. But if gun rights advocates do hear about this and the president is questioned on it he will be able to claim that the program is still in place, that he hasn’t cancelled it. But what good is a program without money?

  But some second amendment groups have  heard about this already and they are not happy.

  Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) Chairman Alan Gottlieb :

Alan Gottlieb agreed that the Obama administration is “risking public safety, as the newspaper put it, ‘in the name of an anti-gun ideology.'”
 
“How dare the president, or anybody in his administration, take measures to erode the safety of air travelers?” Gottlieb asked. “The armed pilot program provides a guaranteed level of security to the public. There may or may not be an air marshal aboard every airplane, but there is definitely a pilot in the cockpit.”

  Alan Gottlieb continued:

“These anti-gun, anti-self-defense bureaucrats seem more interested in their own power, and protecting their little empires, than they are in protecting the public. And now Obama is catering to their anti-gun bigotry.”

   Thousands of pilots have participated in this program since inception in 2003. The pilot union is in favor of this program and has been fighting for more funding. With the most ever radical anti-second amendment president ever in office the pilot union can forget about more funding, they will have to fight just to keep the funding that they already have. And they are losing that funding already. This program keeps Americans safe, and its abolition will naturally make Americans who are flying less safe. Obama would prefer that latter option to the idea of any pro-gun agenda.

  This could be a sign of the way President Obama goes after the second amendment in general- stealthily. He is quietly going after this program, a program that only targets a relatively small minority; a group of a few thousand pilots rather than the millions of gun owners across the United States.

  He starts with a group like the Armed Pilot Program and there are so few affected by it that the people don’t take notice; after all it doesn’t affect them personally. But then the president moves on quietly to the next group; a slightly bigger group, and then the next group. And it continues.

  Quietly strangling the life out of the Armed Pilots Program by cutting out it’s funding will not be the last attempt that this president makes on the life of the second amendment, this is just the beginning.

  We need to watch President Obama very closely on this issue, he is radically anti-second amendment.