[HairOfTheDog]

Well, we also have a problem here, with people who want to board planes intent on killing everyone on them. I understand wanting your own defense, I am a gun-nut, but I am not convinced that a gun is the right weapon for anyone to have on a crowded airplane. I think it is dangerous. I agree that an armed populace is a great deterrent, just maybe not a good idea on an airplane. There is not one structure on an airplane that will stop a bullet, and that structure is not only full of innocents, which is not to be forgotten in any scenario, but also fuel tanks, engines, hydraulic and electrical lines, and all kinds of vital things that can be broken, making the situation no better, and indeed worse.

And I don't think it is wrong to ask someone to disarm for a trip in someone else's plane. It isn't yours, and you don't have a right to be there. You buy a ticket, agreeing to the terms of the contract. That is the rule of law.

You don't want yourself or pregnant women searched, and yet, would not maybe make a stink about a middle eastern man being searched. I agree with searching the middle eastern man. I just also think that failing to search blonde women leaves us pretty vulnerable to a blind spot.

[Republic of Texas]

The Israelis do a pretty good job of profiling, and it is based on more than just ethnicity or religion or sex. It is possible to provide decent security without harassing pregnant women and grandmothers.

[DAnconia55]

You switched topics.

The government doesn't have the right to disarm you at all, for any reason, any where.
Regardless if they have usurped this power.

I, as a private individual, or company, can tell you not to bring your gun on to my property.

But stormtroopers searching old ladies (while letting the towelheads walk by) with government funding, and government powers are not private exercises of property rights.