I don't know that I would go that far. The Sept. 11 hijackings were done with box cutters. Yes, the doors are re-enforced now I understand that but how about the individual pilots psychological resolve? How are the pilots going to react if the bad guys start killing the flight attendants one by one then move on to the passengers if they don't open the door? Yes, I am sure they intellectually know that if they open the door likely they are all dead but I am sure it is a different story if you had to sit there and listen to the screams.

Is it a likely scenario? No, I don't think so but it doesn’t matter what I think or what you think. It only matters what the collective public thinks. It all boils down to what the public is willing to endure. Right now the vast majority of the population is willing to endure a lot to feel safe. Notice I said feel safe not necessarily be safe. The posters on this board have to realize that they are not the vast majority of the traveling public. The vast majority of the traveling public, the ones you refer to as the "ma and pa kettle" travelers, which those of you who scream racist and bigotry at every turn I wonder how those travelers would feel about being referred to in what appears as a belittling term because they don't travel a lot, would feel about that. Seems pretty elitist to me but that is a different topic.

Anyway, I hear a lot about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights on this board. The US is a representative form of government. Our representatives seem to think that this is what we want. The only way I see it changing is if we convince our representatives that the majority want it to change. I don't see that happening because the majority of the country that these people represent doesn’t care. They don't care because they fly maybe once a year at best and just doesn’t affect them.

FB