[archy]

I say, keep pistols, rifles, shotguns, and let the Marines handle the rest.

How good a job did the Marines do of preventing the hijacking of not one but FOUR airliners by ARMED terrorists 09/11?

They can't be everywhere. And if they could, it'd be a dreadful waste of good Marines.

[mudblood]

"How good a job did the Marines do of preventing..."

My point, at the time, was not that marines handle the rest of the problems, but that they handle the rest of weaponry technology (machine guns, grenades, howitzers, etc.). Regarding armed terrorists on planes, an unarmed citizenry in the sky: I like the idea of air marshals. They know that if you start firing away like mad then you can decompress the fuselage (totally misspelled, I'm sure), hurt people, etc. I also like the idea of arming pilots.