As for Pat Paulsen's idea...well, it would save the hijackers the necessity of buying their own firearms! ;-) Very generous. It would also place guns in the possibly quite unwilling hands of a number of people who didn't want them and had no idea how to use them, plus endangering passengers by possibly placing guns in the hands of unstable or incompetent people who might discharge them accidentally or deliberately, thus creating a serious potential problem other than hijackers to worry about when flying. Heh!

I'm being humorous, of course, but then, so was Pat Paulsen.

You know what? Life will never be perfectly safe, and there's not a damn thing you can do about that.