My disagreement with arming pilots is this....Who is going to fly the airplane??? Hate to break it to you, but most of the time you're in the plane it's on auto pilot. Barring turbulence or some other disturbance, after take off and before landing most of what the cockpit crew does is monitor instruments.
Even in the astronomically small chance that didn't work, there's a co-pilot who can fly the plane.
Who is going to fly the airplane???
Without handguns in the cockpit, in the event of a terrorist attack, this guy will be.
"Hate to break it to you, but most of the time you're in the plane it's on auto pilot. Barring turbulence or some other disturbance, after take off and before landing most of what the cockpit crew does is monitor instruments"
I hate to break to you ..... what if Capt Sky King with his Glock in hand responds to the threat and ooopppss gets clipped. Now you have just made Clarence the copilot vunerable to getting clipped as well. Archie Bunker (iirc) once said in response to the hijackings during the 70s that what we ought to do is give each pax a gun upon boarding. Now thats sound advice.
CRE p[ost 21: Your are clearly correct.