In article ,
"Paul J. Adam" wrote:

You're not going to see British or Japanese (to pick two nations with
draconian firearms controls) pilots carrying arms anytime soon; does
that not imply that the priority lies elsewhere?

Well, if they don't want to, they don't have to, but allowing pilots to
carry them seems like a fairly minor risk with a potentially huge
return. If you can't trust a pilot with a handgun, then why trust him
with a quarter-million kilogram plane and 400 lives?

And since the British have a Sky Marshal program already (one of their
airlines has already signed on), taking the decision of whether guns
will be on planes out of the pilots' hands seems like another choice.

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