Originally Posted by West Coast
I no more want to rely on the door for the security of the aircraft than the French should have relied on the maginot line.
......somewhat of a logical fallacy.
The Maginot line had obvious flaws and an even more obvious way of bypassing it. A terrorist is hardly going to sneak in an open side window (or pretty much any other way) to get to the cockpit these days.
For those arguing about the "lack" of terror attacks in the US: to attribute that to armed pilots is even more of a logical fallacy. The lack of terror attacks is equally true in the huge majority of countries who do not arm their pilots. Could there be a common cause for this perhaps (he asks, already knowing the answer)?