[Leaning Right]

After 9/11 it would have been a good idea to allow pilots access to firearms. Store them in a locked safe in the cockpit. Give each pilot a key. The keys must be turned simultaneously, from different spots in the cockpit. Kinda like with missile launches.

Then there’d be no need for combat-ready coffee pots.

[csvset]

A bronze short sword would work too.

[usurper]

After 9/11 it would have been a good idea to allow pilots access to firearms.

They did. A good number of pilots do carry but their not going get involved in a passenger donnybrook. Their firearms are only to protect the cockpit. And rightly so.

[dljordan]

“After 9/11 it would have been a good idea to allow pilots access to firearms. Store them in a locked safe in the cockpit. “

They used to have them.

[GingisK]

The firearms should be on the cockpit crew’s waists, ready to pull immediately. Putting arms in safe is not a meaningful idea.

[Mean Daddy]

Son’s best friend was a Secret Service agent and always flew armed. When he flies, he has to check in at the airline desk to show his paperwork. He gets on one flight and as they were boarding, one of the flight attendants said something to the effect if he was their armed SS agent on the flight. Guess he was pretty upset because he felt it made him a target, plus you’d want an element of surprise.

I spoke to a neighbor whose a police officer and he said he does the same thing. Won’t fly anywhere without his pistol.