[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.

[tpaine]

Ahem, -- the pilot would be shooting AWAY from the avionics at an attacker attempting to bust through a secured door. -- But don't let reality intrude upon your dreams that big brother at FAA can make the world safe.

Defending the unconstitutional Bush decision to violate a pilots RKBA's is sheer political jingoism.