You guys aren't thinking about colateral benefits of being armed as pilots.
If you are gonna arm pilots, you are gonna have to have some sort of universal ID that will allow you to avoid security (What is the point if you can carry a gun?). This is probably the ONLY way we are going to be able to get back to the good old days of not being strip searched before every flight.
By mandating an armed pilot force, the government will be REQUIRED to issue the flight deck an ID that will be sufficient to allow us to bypass security.
If we don't get the guns we won't ever get the ID. We haven't had one yet, the government simply doesn't care if a few pilots are inconvienienced. Infact they like having us strip searched in front of the public. It is all part of the visual bandaid that has become security. So what is the moral of the story? Guns WILL get us respect.
Cheers
Wino