So the pilot has difficulties in certain skill sets, who hasn't at one time or another.

IMHO his former employer overstepped their bounds without just cause. The Court found that the Airliner had no proof that the Pilot was armed. It should have ended there.

The Pilot's FFDO status and associated training/vetting also should have mitigated and overridden this obvious unnecessary overreaction by both the airline and the TSA.

I believe that a good portion of the U.S. populous have been over sensitized to a person's personal choice to enhance his/her personal protection by LEGALLY possessing a firearm.

People need to spend time in States like Texas and Arizona and in rural/farm areas of the U.S. where firearms are considered as common as a hammer to a carpenter.