Just because a few lunatics commit an insane act does not mean the world has gone insane.Guns on the flight deck?.It sadly seems to be a groundswell of opinion from the good ole Yoo-ess who are shouting for this.Just as the Americans are incapable or unwilling to examine the reasons why they are so hated by some they are blind to this insane love affair with guns they seem to have.Anyone who has ever picked up a firearm will concede that they have a strange and compelling attraction.They feel good at a instinctive level and we want one.Unfortunately a few people then start dreaming up tenuous arguments for actualy being allowed to carry one.Ditching your float plane in Alaska and being attacked by a bear is probably about the closest thing to a good reason you will get.Wipping out your Glock and whuppin' Abdul's ass is really just insane "yee har!" good ole boy fantasy and is the type of stuff that many outside the US find a bit scary.I dont want to start a Yank bashing thread but I'm afraid the time has come for you guys to do some serious navel gazing and figure out just why some people hate you to the extent that they commit these insane acts.Stop trotting out rhetoric about them hating freedom and democracy etc and wake up to the real and tangible grievacies that many people have.If you remove these reasons you will really have tackled terrorism.