I'd also consider letting active military and police, or perhaps active military and police with a few years of service be allowed to (but perhaps not required to) carry appropriate weapons when they're on a plane, assuming again proper training.
This is not too far-fetched. There are already rules allowing for the carrying of firearms by... um, I'd have to look it up, but essentially government (federal?) employees whose jobs allow the carrying of firearms... on commercial aircraft. Damn, where's my FAA regs when I need 'em.
As a pilot, I'm not happy about that unless they get the right kind of bullets. Overpenetration is a bitch in a pressurized aircraft or where an innocent passenger is likely to be right next to the baddie. But suppose they get the right kind.
A problem that [a system of searches] shares with the current system is not lack of training, but laziness, getting soft.
Absolutely. A perennial problem. That's going to be hard to address. In the end, this is all dependent on people, fallible mood-driven error-prone fatigue-prone people...
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This is not too far-fetched. There are already rules allowing for the carrying of firearms by... um, I'd have to look it up, but essentially government (federal?) employees whose jobs allow the carrying of firearms... on commercial aircraft. Damn, where's my FAA regs when I need 'em.
As a pilot, I'm not happy about that unless they get the right kind of bullets. Overpenetration is a bitch in a pressurized aircraft or where an innocent passenger is likely to be right next to the baddie. But suppose they get the right kind.
A problem that [a system of searches] shares with the current system is not lack of training, but laziness, getting soft.
Absolutely. A perennial problem. That's going to be hard to address. In the end, this is all dependent on people, fallible mood-driven error-prone fatigue-prone people...