In message , Jim Yanik
writes
"Gord Beaman" ) wrote in
While you are of just the opposite bent. Why not discuss the
different offerings and try to pick the most effective/safest all
around method?. Nobody doubts your gun knowledge here but you
certainly can appear strident and unreasonable when someone
argues against you.

And please don't say "I do not!", I'm merely telling you how you
come across.

I'm advocating the KISS principle.
Rather than spend lots of bucks on methods that can still be bypassed or
breached,armed pilots will be effective and inexpensive,*immediately
applicable*(a BIG positive),and in the long run,safer.

Not if it's the only measure taken because it's cheap, quick, easy (and
allows any failures to be blamed on the pilots)

I'm not opposed to pilots having the option of going armed as part of
the security system: I _am_ opposed to flight crew armament being the
entire security system.

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When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
W S Churchill

Paul J. Adam MainBoxatjrwlynch[dot]demon{dot}co(.)uk