<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by MrMillion:
I haver said it before but please let me repeat it for the benefit of this thread: Outside of the Air Marshalls there are already about two dozen agencies of all level s (including FBI, CIA, DEA but also Customs and Postal Inspectors and many others) that already are allowed to carry concealed, armed weapons about commercial aircraft *and they do*! For the purpose of avoiding firearms aboard an aircraft, not arming the pilots makes no sense at all.
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I disagree. It is not an issue of avoiding firearms on an aircraft. It is an issue of avoiding the there's-a-gun-in-here-come-and-get-it problem. I fail to see how placing a weapon in a known location makes a plane safer.