[Kaisersrsic]

Guns for pilots would serve only to remedy old school hijackings. The strategy of telling pilots to fly the plane and allow every single passenger to be killed is absolutely correct. Even if 95% of the time a pilot with a gun could leave the cockpit and subdue hijackers, the 5% risk of putting a hijacker in the cockpit is too risky.

The pilots have a 2nd Amendment right to carry a gun, but they don't have any Constitutional right to fly. They can choose.

[lepton]

Even if 95% of the time a pilot with a gun could leave the cockpit and subdue hijackers, the 5% risk of putting a hijacker in the cockpit is too risky.

1) the proposal was not that he would go wandering around the plane with the gun. It is a last line of defense.

2) People who commit suicide attacks prefer to succeed rather than die futiley.

3) 5% is a higher risk than 100%?

[safisoft]

The strategy of telling pilots to fly the plane and allow every single passenger to be killed is absolutely correct. Even if 95% of the time a pilot with a gun could leave the cockpit and subdue hijackers, the 5% risk of putting a hijacker in the cockpit is too risky.

Were you awake on 911? The pilots can't fly the airplane WHEN THEY ARE DEAD. Listen everyone, the gubmint yahoos are talking about "secure cockpit doors". I am an airline pilot. It is a hoax. Trust me - that is why my Union, the Air Line Pilot's Association actually CHANGED their mind on the issue of armed pilots late last year - to STRONGLY support it - because they saw that the "enhanced security measures" are not what thy gubmint wants you sheeple to think!