Arming Airline Pilots: A Good Solution to a Bad Problem Following September 11th, the nation began questioning the safety of the crew and passengers aboard it’s airlines flights. Many solutions were proposed, including the very controversial issue of arming cockpit crews with firearms. Commercial airline pilots should be armed because they work in the most crucial portion to the safe operation of an aircraft, the cockpit. If you really think hard enough about it, …showed first 75 words of 602 total…

…showed last 75 words of 602 total…citizen needs to ask themselves if they would pay a few dollars more for a fare to have real security, or if the illusion of security (such as the National Guard troops we had patrolling with unloaded weapons) will suffice. We need the air marshal program, we need heavy duty doors, but doesn’t it make sense to put that final layer of lethal protection where the terrorists want to be as a last resort.