For over 40 years, weapons were allowed to be carried by pilots in airliners. It was very recent - just prior to 9/11 - that Jane Garvey, the no-nothing about aviation administor of the FAA reversed this regulation. For those concerned about bullets bringing down an airliner, don't worry about it. A single bullet, or even several, will not cause the aircraft to violently decompress and explode. Look at fighter and bomber aircraft. They get shot with cannons and yet survive to land. Look at Aloha Airlines'737 that lost part of its fuselage roof. It landed safely. Tazers are suggested. These are good if there's only 1 or maybe 2 terrorists. I say allow the pilots to be armed with handguns. In the 40 plus years that they were allowed to be carried, not a single incident ever occured that a gun was discharged wrongly. If you can't trust a pilot with a gun, then don't fly. If you trust the pilot with your life and that of 100's of others and with the safe operation of a piece of machinery that costs millions of dollars, why don't you trust him with a tool that can save lives? No, for you anti-gun people out there, none of this data came from the NRA but from research of other sources. -- David Ross http://home.attbi.com/~damiross