[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.

[Ten Megaton Solution]

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.

Really? Do you know that each and every year approximately 40,000 people are killed on the highways and streets of America, and many more wounded, and no one is seriously discussing putting the car in the garage and keeping it there?