After gun control...

[kandrathe]

>As long as the snake remains in the owners control and space, there shouldn't be a problem. Now, vermin and other disease carrying animals (like humans) might be another type of quarantine issue.

I'm not as confident, after all there's not enough Samuel L. Jackson to be stationed in every plane, should there be a problem. Though the vermin issues is probably covered under bio weapons treaties of some sort or another. I think it was the Swiss accord of 1892 that outlaws the inhumane use of dog doo on a stick. (Might not be the exact name, my memory is hazy on that issue.)

But on a slightly more serious note, while people are certainly entitled to their opinions on sticky topics like weapons etc, my personal take on the whole thing is basically the weapons or objects that are used as weapons, are still inanimate objects. Of course guns or anthrax loaded puppies shouldn't be just handed to anyone and everyone, anymore than a power drill should be given to toddlers. However there's people that I feel safe with even if I'm locked in a room with them full of loaded guns, light sabres, and flaming nun-chucks. With other people, I wouldn't want to be in the same time zone with them even if all they have is a rusty plastic spork.

It's all getting a little crazy in the airplane business. [Sarcasm]Fly naked, it's safest for everyone. You can't trust anyone to carry anything on a plane anymore. See there are no bad people, just bad objects. Remove the objects and the people will calm down.[/sarcasm]