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glc, I know that the Air Force and the Navy are the prime training grounds for Airline Pilots. I am not saying that they are traitors or idiots. I am just thinking that if a hijacker was holding a knife to a flight attendants throat, he might turn over the gun. It would be a tough decision for a pilot to make. I think that a better solution would be sky marshalls and a pretty strong cockpit door. A sky marshall could possibly intervene before there was a hostage problem. A pilot with a gun could only intervene after a hostage was taken.
Anyway, it looks like the pilot union is pushing pretty strong for this. If they did it, I don't think that the pilot should carry the gun on his person. Put it in a lockbox in the cockpit.
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