[KTM rider]

wouldnt it just be cheaper and more effective to have armed security on every flight ?

how does it help to shoot down a passenger plane just to save the white house from getting crashed into

but then again I am predjudiced , because 150 innocent civilians have much more value to me than the white house or any other government icon

[worst-case scenario]

I agree with you there. Put armed air marshals on every flight, not just the overseas ones.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/air-marshal-surge-race-time/story?id=9493323

According to this article, there aren’t enough of ‘em. I wonder how many this “surge” is going to enlist.

Of course that won’t help stop flights like the 9/11 attacks, which were originating within the US. There are about 28,000 US commercial flights daily, according to one article on air marshals I read right after Christmas.

[Still Thinking]

wouldnt it just be cheaper and more effective to have armed security on every flight?

Yet ANOTHER case of a government "solution" causing the problem. Go back to the way it was in the 50's. Let everyone carry guns on, stop X-raying us and taking our temperature up our ass before boarding. Then if there's a problem on board that's unrecoverable, shoot down the plane. Seems unsporting to expect innocent people to accept getting shot down without allowing them the means to try and rectify the situation themselves first. See, there's almost ALWAYS a way to use freedom to solve a problem, and it ALWAYS works better than taking it away.