That might work as well as my proposed solution to prevent aircraft hijackings. My solution also has the advantage of saving millions (billions?) of dollars in airport operating expenses.

Instead of all the elaborate security precautions to make sure that nobody gets on board the aircraft with deadly weapons (like knitting needles and crochet hooks) they should just arm every passenger as he boards the plane. No, not with any weapon that could pierce the skin of the plane, but with a compressed air pistol loaded with a single anesthetic dart. The dosage of the dart would be calibrated so that one or two hits would cause drowsiness and disorientation; three or five hits would cause unconsciousness, and six or more would be quickly fatal.

It would take a bold hijacker indeed to stand up in front of 250 armed passengers and suggest a change in destination or purpose of the airplane.

But, despite the brilliance of my plan, nobody listens to me so we still have to deal with the TSA and surrender our bottles of shampoo and soda pop. I tell you, I just don't know what's wrong with the world today.

tanstaafl.