Argumentative Essay On 9/11

The airplane is the safest way to travel; everyone knows this fact. But many people are still scared of flying and are super vigilant during the trip. The shadow of this fear partially comes from the 9/11 attacks, which caused almost 3,000 death and a vast of structures into ruins on September 11, 2001. Four passenger airliners were hijacked by nineteen al-Qaeda terrorists and crashed into buildings as suicide attacks, and the incident made a tremendous fear among the U.S. citizens and the U.S. government. This incident became one of the biggest terrorist attacks in the world, and the recovery of the damages took numerous amounts of human and financial resources of America.
As a result of the attacks, there has been a significant change in U.S. politics and airport security, many of new policies came up against terrorism, including the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), strengthen the airport security, the reinforcement of the cockpit door, the most controversial …show more content…
The idea of arming pilots comes from the Arming Pilots Against Terrorism Act, which was signed by Former President George W. Bush on November 25, 2002. In the act, and Undersecretary Magaw – who has announced that guns are not allowed in the cockpit in May 2001 (qtd. in Renna 864-865) – was ordered to establish a two-year experimental program ( Federal Flight Deck Officer Program) which compels the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to train and arm airline pilots who volunteered for the program in order for the pilots to keep the passengers safe when carrying firearms onboard. The act was tried to be prevented by a group of professionals which was composed by the Air Transport Association, James Loy (the second administrator of TSA), and executives of twenty-one top airline companies (including American, United, Delta, Northwest, etc…), but the action failed (qtd. in Renna