[Lizavetta]

Airliner security will continue to be a joke as long as security is an overhead cost to the airlines, rather than a function of the government. The free market has ABSOLUTELY FAILED here. No one despises big government or the police state more than I, but I have seen this travesty from the inside.

We want the very cheapest airline fare, but don't think about what is being cut to allow that cheap fare to exist.

Now we know.

[cc2k]

We want the very cheapest airline fare, but don't think about what is being cut to allow that cheap fare to exist.

All I want is freedom. I'm willing to accept responsibility for my own safety and defense, but I insist that I be able to defend myself. I will not get on another airliner without defensive tools. I'll settle for a knife, but I really want a small gun with ammunition appropriate for the environment.

The people on those flights died because they were cooperative sheep. I'm not saying that I wouldn't have been just as passive on Tuesday. Tuesday, there was no history to indicate that passive acceptance wasn't the best way to deal with hijackers.

Today, I'm certain that any hijacker that tries to take control of a plane with me on it will have to kill me before he or any of his accomplices will take control of the plane. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one he'll need to kill or subdue, either.