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I believe pilots should be allowed to keep firearms in the cockpit. That being said, I also believe that it would be a near impossibility for any muslim terrorists to take over another American aircraft as they did in 2001. At that time, the mantra was "stay calm, give them what they want, nothing worse will happen". They caught the flight crews and passengers by surprise, cowing them into submission with extreme violence against passengers and crew, and having their way - until the word got out and on Flight 93 the crew and passengers resisted. Yes, they died, but the muslims did no further damage to structures and people on the ground.

Today, in the air, "stay calm" is not an option. Many passengers, in my experience, carefully eye boarding individuals, I know I look at everyone sitting in 1st class (I don't usually fly there), plus I look down the length of the cabin to see if there are any obviously arab or muslim elements. Especially to see if there are any seated together or in close proximity to one another and to cabin choke points. I keep potential weapons (carryon bag strap with buckle, two Uni-Ball fine point pens, my own belt with buckle) at the ready and "sleep" with one eye open. I look for individuals moving about the cabin and locate male passengers who I believe would be valuable allies in a tussle. It's up to us, people, to assure our own safety today. The US government, try as it may, cannot make things perfectly safe. But, I'm not about to let any muslims pricks take me and my family down without a fight to the death.

We are all Minutemen in this war, just like in 1776. It's the same thing now as then - a war for independence against Islam that we cannot lose.

We are all Minutemen in this war, just like in 1776.

Exactly. Now if we could only convince the federal government of that. They are making the situation much more dangerous by disarming law-abiding passengers. Perhaps even worse is that they are killing off the airlines.

What I propose is a free market in security. Let airline A run it's own security. Let them perform whatever screening and profiling they want, and let law-abiding passengers carry. Allow them to put video cameras anywhere they want in the cabin.

Airline B can disarm everybody and let the TSA drones perform all security.

Then let the flying public decide on which airline they want to fly.