Which members of congress saying that. Nobody wants armed hooligans running around. Anybody would say that. It seems clear that the members of congress that said that were referring specifically to pilots. That being the case, fire those members of congress for incompetence because they have allowed hooligans to pilot commercial aircraft. Or, at the very least, they don't comprehend that a pilot is highly skilled and has a twenty-ton-missile at his command and surely has the competence to manage a handgun with adequate training.
Commercial Pilot's flight training is many hundreds, if not a thousand plus hours. Hand gun training for pilots at the Front Sight Firearms Training Institute -- the best in the country and probably the world -- is a four day course. Gee wiz to the members of congress, you sound like you just fell of a turnip wagon... Or, you're intentionally causing problems where they need not exist.
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