[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.

[wita]

You have it exactly right, the Constitution, and Bill of Rights do not stop at the airport door, despite the move to make it so, it will never be so, and there are enough exceptions right now, that it shouldn't be so, but with the intellect of those in power, we the sheeple are saddled with the unworkable, unjustifiable, unconstitutional, position given us by the inmates to the asylum, commonly called bureaucrats, and elected officials.