I think you've been duped by the Goldfinger Myth.Bullets and confined cabins do not go well together
I think you've been duped by the Goldfinger Myth.
Read Airplanes & Guns: Myths and Reality by Angel Shamaya.
I think you've been duped by the Goldfinger Myth.
Read Airplanes & Guns: Myths and Reality by Angel Shamaya.
But what if there were twenty terrorists on board as well? I mean after all, they'd be able to board legally with weapons... I think it'd be a blood bath, with no outcome predicted other than the plane still possibly going down.
Although I am not against the general concept of allowing CCW on aircraft, the thought of it AT THE CURRENT TRAINING LEVEL scares me totally.
The thought of multiple, barely trained people with guns in a restricted environment opening fire on each other with no escape route for the innocent to even attempt to flee ...
If perhaps there was a much stiffer training regiem, background check, and mental stability test to obtain an "aircraft carry" endorsement to CCW perhaps ... but for now, I prefer to fly without firearms.
Perhaps there should be a stiffer training, better psychological test given for more than just CHL carry. Some of the things that have happened lately with drunk pilots, pilots missing the whole city they were supposed to land at while playing with their computers and who knows what else is more scary than guns in the planes.