Before anyone gets too enthusiastic about the article above, note that the author believes that all passengers should be allowed to carry guns aboard flights:
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Now the idea of armed passengers is extremely offensive to the gunphobics who have spent the last thirty years inflicting their aesthetic sensibilities on the America, and turning airports, schools, and too many workplaces into “gun-free zones” — which in practice has meant turning them into criminal safety zones, where it easy to kill a lot of people — especially people who believe that “the best defense is to put up no defense — give them what they want.”
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It would be possible to decide to allow the armament of only some of the categories of people we have discussed in this article. But the safest strategy is for all of them to be armed, if they so choose</font>
[This message has been edited by Ken hAAmer (edited 06-24-2003).]