Well, orca strait, you pay for those 90,000+ Sky Marshals out of the already paid pax ticket tax (and STOP the routing of these funds to the general account that Congress spends on pork-barrel projects)...and get rid of the army of high-school dropouts now employed to hand search 85 year old grandmas.
IF proper security is desired, it must be paid for....and if the flying public demands same, the funds WILL be found.
And, pistol packin' pilots are NOT the answer....these guys belong up front, in control of the machine, not in the cabin with delusions of Wyatt Earp.