Roadtrip...
Sorry....Mass murder, terrorism, stupidity, accident....whatever you call it.
What your saying then is to "Arm" the flight crews? Lets get serious. It takes highly trained personel of a military if not "Special Forces" background in order to effectivly use small arms inside a pressurized aircraft enviroment. As flight crew, it "IS" your resposibility for the safety of pax and crew but you must draw the line somewhere. It ain't your job. Whats your company's procedure for a hijacking attempt? Pull out your snub nosed 38 and shoot the guy? Start to wrestle with the guy within the confines of the flight deck? And what if there is more than one? All armed with "utility knives".
It starts on the ground, at the gate, in the terminal. Get rid of these contracted out security guards that rummage through your bags and are so busy yacking to one another in their foerign language that they ain't paying attention. No more pen knives, and swiss army knives on-board.
Lets find these weapons and question these maniacs at the security checkpoints before you get buttoned up and call for push-back.