No problem.
You have the sky marshalls there for the same reaon that you send in trained troops into Afghanistan, and not a bunch of homeowners from Duluth who want to show these idiots what's what.
Intense, specific training. Trained to deal with hostage situations. Professionals.
These terrorists are highly trained commandos, I think that citizens would do more harm than good.
We can debate this endlessly, but neither one of us has real data to throw around. We can discuss all the good that guns do to prevent crime in the streets, I just think that the situation os quite different when you are 35,000 feet in the air, and dealing with trained killers rather than junkies looking for a VCR.
"Actually, for "little kids" that's down there with choking to death on grapes, and lower than each toilet bowls and buckets."
What? No grapes on airplanes? Damn!
Negligence is negligence, and I was responding to someone who used an absolute term in relation with the level of reponsible behavior of ALL gun owners.
"Perhaps not, but fear of failure would be up there."
Maybe, or maybe the gunfight in and of itself was the mission. A few mid-air gunfights between armed passengers and terrorists and people start driving places instead of flying. The true goal of 9/11 was more economic than the murder of the people in the buildings.