Boxer, who'da thunk it?
I wrote Senator Boxer five years ago about arming pilots and she has been in the corner of arming pilots all along, and for cutting all the unnecessary red tape to training. I will give her credit for this, even though I don't agree with her otherwise Marxist beliefs.
A friend of mine says the skeptics come and view the training sessions for our pilots and leave very impressed. Also, he says it's silly to put the pilots through all the triple-fold psychological testing, etc. before they can be trained. After all, they already have a much deadlier weapon at their disposal, the whole darn plane.