I am very upset by the probability that decent American citizens who are passengers on board airliners will be disarmed forever and have to resort to suicidal efforts to protect themselves and the people on the ground when foreign terrorists fly the friendly skies with them.
The heroes who wrestled control from the hijackers and crashed their airliner into the woods of Pennsylvania when they heard from their relatives on cell phones about the other planes that had crashed into the W T C - they deserved to be armed. They shouldn't have had to sacrifice their lives.
Treating every citizen as if we are potential terrorists will not effectively increase national security. We are our own first line of defense -- and ordinary citizens sacrificed themselves to save the White House from destruction.
Not only were they their own defense, but, even disarmed, they defended our nation from further disaster when the army and air force and law enforcement officers and airport security personnel were incapable.
Politicians: we are not the enemy. Disarm yourselves - not the patriotic citizens who love America, life, liberty and human rights.