Canadians are P I N K O S!
The hell with arming the crew - ARM THE PASSENGERS!
(If someone pulls a rod, there's 50 more pointing back at him.)
I’ve said for years that the stewardesses should hand out short baseball bats to each passenger as they board. You know, the kind truckers use for “thumping” tires to get a quick pressure check.
Then as you leave the plane, turn you bat back in.
No worry about stray rounds hitting someone or whether or not the fuselage will explosively decompress when punctured, thereby killing everyone.