Flying....”Now let me see if I understand you; by making me 100% defenseless you are making me safer?” NOT!!
Translate “An armed society is a polite society” to “An armed society is a SAFE society”; statistics from states which allow gun carrying prove this unequivocally and without exception!!
Do away with “gun-free zones”, profile males of mideastern descent, and all of a sudden the problem reduces significantly! Then the TSA could concentrate soley on bomb detection, simplifying their task.
“but some sicko might get a gun” - how much can a sicko do, or would one try, when surrounded by similarly armed folks, especially in a confined space like an airplane? DUH!
Don’t let anyone tell you a couple of bullet holes in an airplane will cause decompression, either. In reality, airplanes leak like sieves - a bullet hole is of no consequence except as a gun-grabber scare tactic!
heh-heh!!
The myth of the exploding pressurized a/c is everywhere.
Aircraft as so leaky that when sitting on the ramp (unpressurized) rain often leaks in.