[reform4me]

probably in the the school of common sense. pilots need to be concerned with safely flying the aircraft and not heroics better left to someone else, air marshalls or whatever.

[ppaul]

...pilots need to be concerned with safely flying the aircraft and not heroics better left to someone else, air marshalls or whatever.

Yeah.
Every darn passenger should be armed.

[Shooter 2.5]

And that's why the pilots were forced to use a fire axe in the last incident. The pilots and the attendants want to be armed. They are the sole experts of this question and they should be armed.