Have you noticed that flight attendants place stable-looking, able-bodied passengers at the emergency exits?

Why not have regular volunteer citizens who have been trained and are experienced with pistols get licensed with hard-to-dulicate photo IDs, have them identify themselves when they check in for their seat assignment, and have the airline put them in "certain" seats that carry loaded weapons? Maybe they could wear sleeve garters or something so the rest of the passengers would know who they are, and who to go to if they saw trouble.

Personally, I would feel better if I knew there were a few people on board who could actually DO something. Then the other stupid rules about carrying multitools and Bics could be cancelled.

Didn't someone once say something like "Only a fool takes a knife to a gun fight"?

Norad, if they HAVEN'T been trained to look for certain types of explosives, what is all this Homeland Security crap been about?

Sue