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The simplest solutions are often the most complicated. In the early morning of September 11th, 2001, four American airliners were hijacked and flown into the World Trade Centers, the Pentagon, and a small field outside of a sleepy Pennsylvania town. After the initial shock and rescue efforts had abated, the country reflected on how something like this could have happened. Some would say that the “knee-jerk” response to this problem of protecting our airways was to arm the pilots; but guns are not the resolution to every security problem. The U.S. Department of Transportation and other federal agencies have always believed that allowing pilots to carry weapons onto their flights only served to place those weapons closer to anyone who might use them for a bad purpose. They figured that guns in the cockpit created more of a risk than a benefit (Hicks). Even the Air Lines Pilot Association’s (ALPA) own Security Committee Chairman recommended in a 2000 newsletter on air rage to “not threaten someone with the crash axe or other dangerous object. The aggressor can take it away from you and use it to his or her advantage. If you must select a weapon to save your life and the lives of your passengers, be mentally and physically