Originally Posted by SWA Bubba

Here, lemme take a crack at this:
And to help dispel your ignorant "cowboy mentality" argument:
- Until 1987 (when the feds changed the rules) large numbers of pilots carried firearms with them on their aircraft, with zero known record of incidents. In fact, until sometime in the 1960s, commercial pilots carrying US Mail aboard (a substantial percentage of all commercial aircraft), were actually required to carry a firearm with them. Again, zero known record of incidents. Gee, I wonder how it was possible that we didn't have any "cowboy shootouts" in the sky. And this was all before the modern FFDO program.

Bubba