I thought they were to be deployed permanently, in which case they would be armed. Can you imagine the interview if they WEREN'T armed, and a plane slammed into the Capital?

Well, Major, why didn't your people shoot down that airliner?

Well, Tom-Dan, if you look closely at the videos we did poke a whole buncha holes in it. Boy-howdy, there were more holes in that thing than there are in the Alamo! Which is right down the street from home!! Are they watchin'? Hi, Mom. Hi, Dad. Heh, heh.

Well, you see, all we had was the wadding, so to speak. Didn't have any bullets. Well, the one, but that was locked in the closet, and I don't have a key. But we did hit it a lot, and I think we scared whoever was flying that thang!. Scared 'em bad. They were veering all over the sky!

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