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To the best of my knowledge, President Bush has never come out and openly stated that he opposes the arming of pilots. All he has said on the record is "I'll have to think about it".

But then he took an oath to "faithfully execute the law", and congress passed a law almost two years ago to arm pilots. I think we're up to 600 out of 100,000 now. So one has to make some inferences...

TSA Drags Its Feet On Arming Pilots: Congress voted last year to protect Americans in the air

Why is President Bush against arming Pilots?

P.C. Air Security - When will our pilots be armed?

[ASA Vet]

congress passed a law almost two years ago to arm pilots.

IIRC there's an older law stating something about a "right to keep and bear arms."
How did being armed on a privately owned aircraft become the governments business?