This is typical gross overreaction, fueled by a sensationalistic new media in the States. The lemmings and knuckleheads in the US (and there are a lot of them) have been conditioned by frightened liberals that everything must be 100% safe. And if it has to do with those nasty little unsafe airplanes, the more restrictions the better.
Never mind the fact that a suicide killer in a large car or truck can cause much more carnage than a deliberate airplane crash. But they don't want to hear that, because then it may affect THEM and their Chevy Suburban Land Yatchs instead of some poor guy trying to get his pilot's license.
Don't worry, this crap will blow over too when some idiot mows down people at the mall with a pogo stick -- then they'll be calling for abolition of those instead.