From: "John D.Wentzky" 

In news:873b40k4a3.fsf{at}nospam.pacbell.net, No One
 typed:
> "John D.Wentzky"  writes:
>
>> In news:b5HLh.129337$_73.123362{at}newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net,
>> Andrealphus  typed:
>>> In News gSGLh.25188$68.7841{at}bignews8.bellsouth.net,, John D.Wentzky
>>> at johndwentzky{at}alumni.furman.edu, typed this:
>>>
>>>>> You clearly are ignorant of our Constitution. Please
do not vote.
>>>>
>>>> You'd rather me be a candidate?
>>>
>>> Sure, it would give the assassins a real target for a change.
>>
>> I bet they couldn't shoot me on the Space Shuttle.
>
> It looks like Wentzky doesn't know that being an astronaut is not
> an elected position. :-)

It's a job.
I have experiecne in wearing suits and travelling in airplanes. LOL!

> Now, they *did* let John Glenn go on the space shuttle while Glenn
> was a senator, but he was also the first American to orbit the
> earth, so there was some rationale for the exception.

Yeah, meaning NASA isn't for the people now? LOL!
You afraid they won't like the President going on an inspection tour when
they want to gang bang in space with the Russians?

> BTW, they *can* shoot you on the Space Shuttle

Guns aren't allowed in space.
You think the second amendment applies off US Soil?

> - that would simply be a dumb thing to do if the bullet didn't stop inside
> you.

Or if they missed.

> As to whether they would, I'll just refer you to recent news about an
> astronaut who shot someone here on earth and who was arrested as
> a result.

Nowak actually shot someone?

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