"John Roncallo" wrote in message
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1) Having guns on board makes it unnecessary for terrorist to smuggle
guns on board.


Wouldn't the terrorists have to know which flights carried air marshals?



Now they just have to get the ones that were carried on
board by sky marshals.


Wouldn't they have to identify the air marshals to do that? If they can't
identify the marshals or formulate a tactic to obtain the marshal's weapon,
wouldn't they be in the position of having to get their own weapons aboard?



2) A gun shot can rupture the pressurized cabin.


So what? That would just mean there's a bullet-sized hole in the cabin in
addition to all the other holes in the cabin.