[dighton]

Allowing pilots to carry guns tells would-be hijackers where a weapon can be obtained in-flight. And police annals are filled with accounts of officers killed with their own weapons or bystanders shot with guns wrestled away from overpowered officers.

Cripes. "People must not arm themselves because somebody might disarm them."

3,000 people got killed last year when some PLANES got "wrestled away" from their crews. I'd prefer giving crew a chance to USE their guns, STOP a hijacker, and SAVE their aircraft, passengers, and selves.

[elbucko]

"...police annals are filled with accounts of..

..anything the writer, in this case the editorial board, wants the police annals to be filled with. It is time to put this old canard to rest and require statistic with reference when "police annals" are cited as a source of credibility for the editorial. This is lazy writing on the part of the newspaper.