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I'm not saying that hijackings would never happen without weapons on planes. I am saying that the possibility of them would be drastically reduced. My proof of this is that there have only been four fatal hijackings of American-owned airlines, excluding Tuesday's tragedy, in almost twenty years. See for yourself. None of those fatal incidents occured without the use of a firearm, and most occurred on the ground. Only one seems to have been at the hands of passengers, and only one occurred in the United States; the other three were in foreign countries on American planes.

The point is that if weapons are prevented from getting onboard in the first place, hijackings will become pretty much obsolete. Your hebetude would be almost charming if it wasn't so stupid.