Clearly there are a vocal minority of people out there who think that pilots should carry guns whatever the logic and evidence against it.
Charlton it is pure arrogance to think that a pilot, trained to fly, would overpower a terrorist, trained to kill, in a one on one in the cockpit. On Sept 11 it is highly likely that the terrorists would have overpowered the pilots and crew, even if the crew had guns, because the terrorists were highly trained to do so. Pilots are trained to fly. As we know that takes up quite enough of our time. We can never expect to achieve the level of expertise as the terrorist can who spend all of their time training to be a terrorist.
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