[Huck]

I think that if people were able to carry guns onto planes, terrorists would adapt other means of inflicting terror on us. Whether or not carrying guns onto planes is right or wrong, it wouldn't stop terrorists. They would devise other strategies. The way to stop terrorists is to fight them as we are fighting them now, in an all out war, cutting off their funding, taking on their safe haven states, and hunting them and killing them. So you can complain about guns and pocketknives on commercial flights, but that is not how the war will be won.

[DGallandro]

I think you completely missed my point. Carrying guns on board aircraft isn't about winning the war. It's about personal responsibility for your own safety. My point is why make it easier for terrorists? Your own post indicates that "it wouldn't stop terrorists, they would devise other strategies."

YOU ARE RIGHT! They would have to devise other strategies, and THAT IS THE POINT! Make them devise OTHER strategies, other than just strolling on an aircraft with a box cutter and killing over a thousand people.

C'mon folks, let's not make it TOO easy for them, huh? Make 'em work for it a little?

Is that too much to ask?

DG