In a rear-guard effort to fend off the pending legislation to overrule idiotarian Magaw, the Washington Post managed to scrape the bottom of the barrel and come up with three pilots who are against arming pilots.

Too bad they're overwhelmingly outnumbered.

[Slapping forehead update on Thursday at 1 PM]

Geeezzz, I just reread that piece, and realized that it was by George Will. I hadn't even looked at the author the first time, or maybe I just blocked it out, because it was creating such a cognitive dissonance.

Maybe Paul Orwin is right--if Will wasn't an idiot before, he's becoming one.

So if a terrorist gets sucked out a window; Is that an argument for or against guns in the cockpit? ;-)

What gets me is the argument that a gunshot will cause decompression has been dealt with many many times. The pressure maintained is more than adequate to compensate for many gunshot holes in the aircraft and the use of frangible ammunition makes it unlikely there will be any holes in the aircraft.

My friends who are in the aircraft design and fabrication business tell me that the cabins of airliners are far from air-tight to begin with; that existing ventholes and leaks are far bigger than any hole a bullet would make. The air pumping systems are capabable of keeping the passenger spaces pressurized.