Clearly there are a vocal minority of people out there who think that pilots should carry guns whatever the logic and evidence against it.
I haven't seen any logic or evidence that furthers the argument against arming pilots. Actually, PPrune is the only place/forum that I've been to where the pro arming pilots are in the minority.
This gun program is just window dressing; "look all you voters, we are being tough on terrorism. We keep you safe and ignorant". Yeah right.
I agree, this program IS just window dressing. Just like having flight crews (and ONLY flight crews) submit to passenger screening, "randomly selecting" little kids and old ladies (heaven forbid we profile), and the myriad of other wasteful and ineffective programs deisgned to make it appear that "security" is tight.