That he isn't pushing for the pilots to be armed is disconcerting to me, personally. I really think that he missed an easy opportunity to paint the demoPUKEs as not wanting Americans protected.
He should have supported the idea/bill. Naturally, the demoPUNKs would have violently opposed it and he could have simply said, "I just want to protect the American people. Don't you?"
So, I am not supporting the fact that the President didn't support this. Rather, I was commenting on the political calculus that has been done. This, in and of itself, is diconcerting because he have been told that the President doesn't make policy based on polls. He may rely on the polls less than his predecessor, who could take a cr*p without taking a poll, but he (or Rove) is using them. WAY TOO much, in my opinion.
One last point, we trust pilots to be able to land a 500,000 pound aircraft on a stip of land about 4500 feet long, but we don't trust them to be able to snap off a few caps into some terrorist's a$$? Huh? With the hand-to-eye coordination it takes to do this, I would think they would be a crack shot and could find center mass fairly easily.
Good point. Also, just the fact that pilots are carrying firearms acts as a deterrent to terrorism in and of itself given that terrorists seek the most weakly defended targets. Speaking of weak, where is the backbone in this administration?