Come on, guys!
why would anyone of us ever bring anything "dangerous" in the cockpit to be handed over to some other maniac on our very own aeroplane to kill ourselves when the only thing we have to do to kill everybody onboard (and several other thousands, depending on where we crash) is just to disengage autopilot and trim it nose down a bit?
Come on! Be serious!
Passenger confidence in air travel? How would anyone ever sensibly think getting on an unchecked train is safer than stepping on an aeroplane where the only non-screened people onboard are the drivers?
This idiocy has gone too far.
As a military C-130 pilot I must carry weapons in the cockpit when I fly to Afghanistan...
Will anyone ever come to me and tell me I'm a danger to flight safety?
Come on!
Next time someone tries to stick anything up our a...s, to check if we have a bottle of anything stuck up there, we should just smile and ask to do them the same...before they do it to us!