I agree. Law enforcement isn't going to defend or protect us. Security can fail. Anything can happen.
I'm getting a VERY uncomfortable feeling about how this new security is shaping up. Let's see if I have this right. The Pilots will have weapons. The Sky Marshalls are going to have weapons. The bad guys are going ot have weapons. Even the stews are going to have mace or a tazer.
And the people who are actually PAYING for that flight are supposed to sit there and get slaughtered like sheep!
What's wrong with this picture?
I think Brazil has the right idea. Arm all passengers with light weapons, so EVERYONE has a weapon. A .22 may not be much of a weapon, but enough of them aimed at the same target will take someone down as effectively as a 45 will.
I resent that the government that I work so hard to maintain doesn't think that I can be trusted with a weapon! It takes all of the power of the (Nanny) State to protect me because without such help, I'm helpless. Think of how much more effective those people on flight 93 would have been if they'd had weapons available, instead of having to innovate boiling water weapons on the spur of the moment.
They need weapons and so do the rest of the travelling public. I'll tell these airlines something for free tho. Unless they have SOME way for people to defend themselves, people are NOT going to fly. WHy should we? The penny-pinchers in the airlines obviously put profit over the safety of their passengers, now they have neither security or passengers. Their own fault I'd say.
I'll put myself up against any stinking arab/muslim in the world. I don't need the govt to help protect me and mine! If I die in the process, I can think of few other causes than America to die for: America and OUR American Dream!