[Shooter 2.5]

"Again, GW & his administators are at odds with practicality.

The Bush administration is balancing a fine line between the public and the airlines. Ordering a private company to arm their employees involves liabilities.

[Atlas Sneezed]

"Ordering a private company to arm their employees involves liabilities."

So just PERMIT them to have armed pilots, and make them liable for a failure to do so, should such failure be found to be negligence.

[dirtboy]

Ordering a private company to arm their employees involves liabilities.

It's one thing to order a private company to arm their employees. It's another to deny them the capability to arm them.