I was just having one of those chatty lunches with my family; the kind where no subject is out of bounds. They were talking about these two most recent attempted hijackings aboard aircraft. I proffered the idea that, perhaps, the government should have nothing whatsoever to do with airline security, that protecting passengers should be the prerogative of the airlines themselves, and that it would even be a sensible idea to allow airline pilots and/or passengers to be armed. They looked at me like I had purple mushrooms in my ears and an arrow sticking out of my forehead.
Immediately, they came back with, "that's a bad idea, because a bullet could puncture the plane, mess up the air pressure, and kill everybody." And though I highly doubted at the time that any civilian ammunition would be capable of piercing the hull of a modern-day commercial aircraft, I didn't exactly have any figures or facts to debunk this claim either.
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