[snopercod]

let's have the airline security people do their jobs, so we don't have to need anymore Todd Beamers.

The only thing airline security did was to disarm the honest citizens who could have prevented what happened.

Why is this concept so difficult to understand?

[oceanview]

so let me get this straight, you want every passenger on air flights to have guns? how many shootouts are we going to have amongst irate or drunken passengers?

how about we just limit it to the pilots and the air marshalls.