[goldstategop]

Agreed. None of the objections to armed pilots are persuasive.

[LowCountryJoe]

It's just a damn shame that too many people in our society are afraid of guns. Did you two hear about that school drug raid in a South Carolina High School where police officers went in the hallways with their pistols drawn? It's debatable if the actions of the police were over the top - I happen to think that the only reason it's viewed that way is because it happened to be guns and not nightsticks.

I happen to think that the officers did the right thing; God knows what kind of debate we would have had had no weapons been drawn and an officer been injured or killed by a student's weapon. In the end, this queasiness of guns we have in our society and the hostility towards the 2nd amendment have no business existing in this day and age of terror. But since it does exist, it doesn't surprise me any that three of four passenger planes were taken over, by force, by individuals with box-cutters.

The president should make this one of the many issues he'll run his reelection campaign on. The weak sisters out their need to have the dangers and the solutions spelled out for the @$$es.