[Ten Megaton Solution]

Let's just say that Stingers are available as box cutters. How many airliners would we lose every day?

Not many, and not every day. The raghead terrorists from Afghanland already have stingers, and not once has one been used to attack a commercial passenger flight.

But people own radios, and one was used to camoflage a bomb on PanAm Flight 103.

[DugwayDuke]

Manportable air defense missiles have been used to attack commericial aircraft. Remember the incident in Africa involving an Israeli aircraft?

Whether terrorists have a few stingers is not the issue. (You can make a credible argument that the stingers given to the Afghani resistance in the 80s are not very useful due to their shelf life) The issue is what would happen if the terrorists could get stingers as easily as they could get box cutters.

The answer to my question (how many airliners would we lose every day) is pretty simple. The first day we would lose a lot, the second day, and each day there after we wouldn't lose a single one. None would be flying. And, none would fly until the terrorists were disarmed.