Very true Shambles, but you miss a major point. Prior to 9/11, the assumpion during a hijack was that the hijackers want something, and for that they would need the passengers alive. Now, there will be the suspicion they're just going to crash us into something, and some of the passengers will fight back. We saw that with one of the planes on 9/11.

The point is, if the marshal can be overpowered, so can the terrorists. It's still only one gun, and there are going to be enough people willing to risk dying right now, to prevent certain death in an hour.

sorry about the thread drift.