Yes, and getting sucked out of an airplane window in the fashion of Bloefeld (?) is not possible. The pressures being dealt with are not so great as to do that.
Anyway, I'm pretty much against anyone but an air marshall having guns on a plane.
When they will guarantee me that there will be multiple, highly-trained air marshals on every single domestic and international flight then I will begin to agree. I would suggest, however, that an important point is being overlooked in that the element of 'not knowing' whether people around you are armed is an essential element in crime control. Notice how in every country and city that outlaws legal gun ownership, violent crime skyrockets. That's because criminals tend to gravitate toward easy targets whom they know cannot fight back.
I mean, hell, everyone's already dealing with fearing terrorists/crappy peanuts/crying babies/smelly toilets/coffee nerves on the flight. It'd be mere seconds before someone got killed for putting their seat too far back. Heh.
A theme of the trigger-happy eager-to-shoot-and-kill civilian gun owner runs throughout your posts....a theme that I have never encountered in reality; a reality that has had me surrounded by legal gun owners since birth.
"A theme of the trigger-happy eager-to-shoot-and-kill civilian gun owner runs throughout your posts....a theme that I have never encountered in reality."
Sorry, I kind of sacrificed clarity in an attempt to be funny. I didn't mean to say WOW IF YOU HAVE A GUN YOU'LL BE ALL GUNG-HO AND SHOOT ME; what I meant was that we all fallible, and that accidents can happen. Fear, stress, and being cramped into coach class affects everyone differently, and it's hard to predict what will happen on a plane if everyone had a gun.