We are already trusting our lives to the captain, and it would save a great deal of money on sky marshalls! ARM OUR PILOTS!
"save a great deal of money on sky marshalls!"It could. The sky marshal plan looks like over $5 billion a year. The pilots are supposedly going to go through the same shooting program. They don't have to deal with keeping their eye on the passengers and such. Their gun is the last resort. The sky marshals are supposed to be the first line.
At any rate if Congress doesn't restore the captain's right, I wouldn't fly, not out of fear, but contempt for those that would bend to such nannyism. The events of 9-11-01 happened, because when the killers showed their hand no one trumped them, except those on the flight over PA, and the pilot there wasn't allowed effective force.