[tpaine]

Incredibile. -- You can, and are, rationalizing away your own freedom & safety to selfstyled 'authorities' .
-- The FAA are a bunch of bureaucratic clowns who have absolutely no expertise OR any constitutuional power to tell airline captains - or their companies, how to best protect the lives of passengers.

[Bush2000]

Incredibile. -- You can, and are, rationalizing away your own freedom & safety to selfstyled 'authorities' . -- The FAA are a bunch of bureaucratic clowns who have absolutely no expertise OR any constitutuional power to tell airline captains - or their companies, how to best protect the lives of passengers.

No, wrong. It's common sense. I've been in a cockpit before: You put a bullet through the avionics equipment and you're cooked. In my opinion, the best way to handle hijackers is specially trained air marshals and better security at airports. Handing weapons to cowboy pilots is not a good idea. They aren't trained sufficiently.