West Coast the fatal logical flaw that September the 11th was last year. Any armed flight is a solution to a problem that has already occured. September 11th was a dramatic enough event to change all future cases of airborne violence such that a respose to that attack in that form becomes obsolete.
Completely agree Orca. Pilots must be in the debate. No-one outside aviation seems to realise quite how much this affected us. At least outside the USA there was from teh start even more shock amongst our community than in the wider society. Mutt perfectly expresses my initial feeling as I saw the sight I can still not watch when it is repeated on television.