Disarming Pilots?

So there is this story in the Washington Times about how the current administration is hampering the program where airline pilots can carry weapons. The program is a good one: pilots must take a gun safety training course so that they KNOW what they are doing if they need to use the gun inside an airplane; also, it provides a last line of defense in case of a hijacking of the airplane by some wacko.

There are a lot of wackos in this country, many of whom aren't Islamic terrorists. I'd still rather not have them hijack my airplane. Let us imagine the scenario: a paranoid schizophrenic manages to conceal a razor blade in his luggage. He kills the stewardess, there is no air marshal, and he breaks into the cockpit. Does it sound like it would be a good thing if he were able to kill the pilot and take over the controls of the plane? It doesn't sound good to me.

And what was the worry about the pilot? That he was going to use the gun to kill someone on the plane? The pilot is flying a multi-ton machine filled with highly flammable liquid 45,000 feet above the ground. If he wants to kill everyone on that plane, he can. The gun would be quite incidental.

What a stupid policy decision by this administration, one among many.