STC to consider steps that would increase security and adress a specific new type of threat that has altered and effected our industry in such a dramatic fashion can hardly be equated with your somewhat melodramatic implication that an attempt is being made for the industry to "become a bunch of vigalantes".
I find your attitude towards the pilots in the profession, lacking in apreciation of the profesionalism and resposibility required and demonstrated on a daily basis by hundreds of thousands of flight deck crews around the world.
Your anti-gun attitude is obvious, your posts seem more a kneejerk reaction than a considered response. Your quoting odds of simple assault while walking through the park and dying of various other misfortunes simplistic and rather remote from the problem. None of the examples quoted by you has had a fraction of the impact that the type of assault that we are considering protection against, had on the airline industry.
If you have not yet grasped the implications of how that one day has effected the airline profession worldwide, you have had your mind closed. The sophistication, methods, objectives and ruthlessness of the threat today is many orders of magnitude more hazardous than anything faced before. It deserves careful sober and thorough consideration of all aspects. Simply quoting some meaningless statistics and suggesting that we simply leave it to other sectors to cope is in my opinion a poor way to even begin considering the problem.