Firearms never solved anything, and the only ones who does not see this, are mostly americans.. Go figure...
The last thing you want in a airplane is a terrorist with a gun. Now, the terrorist has no way of getting a gun onboard an airplane, due to the pax-screening at the airports, so why on earth would anyone, who's playing with a full deck of cards, want to bring a firearm onboard a plane where it is possible for a terrorist to get hold of it?
Surely, a terrorist with a small knife-like object is easier to subdue than one holding a firearm generously offered to him by US-regulations and a dead air-marshall?
The problem with USA is that they have always lagged behind on airport-security, and now they're going overboard with it to compensate... ...and now it's all just a ugly caotic mess of regulations...
Terrorists were never a unknown threat in Europe, and it still isn't, but europeans have (and have always had) a more relaxed and realistic relationship to terrorism.
USA on the other side went full ape**** at 9/11, and have since then grown to look like a paranoid police-state in the eyes of europeans..
Airport security in Europe has been upgraded over the last few years, but it's still at a more realistic level than in the US...
If the US goverment bans all flights to the US without air-marshalls, Europe (and others) should ban flights carriying air-marshalls...
A armed air-marshall doesn't stop terrorists... It's just a minor obstacle for them, and when they overcome the obstacle they are rewarded with a gun... Now how's that for a sweet reward!?
....and as to the reactions of Brazil: Great!! May all countries follow their example and make it just as hard for americans to get out of the US as it is for others to get in!
Then let's see how big W is...
