[neverdem]

Boxer, who'da thunk it?

[verum ago]

guns are the "first line of deterrence and a last line of defense."

sounds a lot like this applies to the general public, and not just pilots...

[Irish Rose]

How much did they pay those experts? I could have given them that advice - in simpler terms, too.

[LongElegantLegs]

No ****, say Kindergartners.

[dr_who_2]

They didn't have any cranks making suggestions like this in October 2001, did they? Maybe my memory is playing tricks on me.

[Fairview]

How come other people can smuggle meat cleavers past the TSA stooges and I can't even get a bottle of contact lens wetting solution past them?

[Redbob]

How could those airport security wizards find boxcutters and meat cleavers?

They're too busy strip-searching my 83-year-old mother-in-law!

[Cold Heart]

American merchant ships had a .38 revover with 100 rounds in the captains safe. Planes should do the same, no need to bring one on, its there in the cockpit already.

[pray4liberty]

"Arm the pilots" was the first thing my commercial-pilot husband said the minute he saw the Twin Towers go down.

Obviously, the anti-gun forces in this country have forgotten that yes, those evil guns do protect people too.

[Cobra64]

"...Determined individuals would even been able to sneak firearms onboard, taking them apart and putting them together again once on the plane..."

Well duh. I said this twenty years ago.

These people are clueless.