When I saw the first plane hit the tower, the first thing I said to the wife, I wonder why the people on the plane allowed that to happen. They had a one inch knife, a one inch knife. If people were taught to defend and not hide, it might not have happened the way it did. The argument against arming pilots is proof enough of what is wrong in American society.
I return you to your regularly scheduled programming.
Oh for crying out loud, sheesh....let's consider for a moment: Up until that day, our country had never had a kamikaze incident involving a jet on our own soil...kamikaze missions had pretty much become a thing of the past after WWII...kamikaze missions usually involved combat aircraft, not commercial jetliners...Americans flying on commercial jets in domestic American flights had never been hijacked before...now, where was it that those folks were supposed to be trained to react to that particular situation?
One inch knife, huh? How many of them? Just one weapon, is that right? Even so, a couple of hijackers working in concert could slice the necks of two or three passengers--even if all they had was just one knife. That might give the other passengers pause, no? Always keeping in mind that, unlike the passengers of Flight 93, those people had NO REASON to believe that the whole flight (and thousands of lives on the ground) was in jeopardy.
But I bet you're some kind of hero. Good for you. Hope that works out okay.
BTW--"scheduled programming" is just my way of pointing out that we've strayed from the topic.