It's one thing to order a private company to arm their employees. It's another to deny them the capability to arm them.
Precisely. If the ACLU were not the phoney Fabian Socialist organization that it is, this would be their number one issue. Being a Fabian Socialist organization, of course, they do not see any "Civil Liberties" issue here. But it is one nonetheless.
To understand the whole issue over the rights of the people to defend themselves and what is theirs, see The Right To Keep & Bear Arms. As between the right of the Government to regulate transportation and the right of private companies in the transportation business to protect their property; the latter is by far the clearer right.
On the subject of the right of piolots, involved in this, see my post above.
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