Stephen Miller: “Our airline pilots are among the most highly trained professionals in all of the American workforce. Every day millions…”

“Our airline pilots are among the most highly trained professionals in all of the American workforce. Every day millions of Americans put their lives in the hands of airline pilots, and we have great reason to give them our trust. Thanks to literally thousands and thousands of hours of training, commercial airline pilots have made aviation our Nation's safest form of public transportation. But since September 11, our Nation's pilots are faced with a grave new danger: Homicidal fanatics who think nothing of using our airplanes to kill themselves and as many Americans as they can. With these new threats, the American public has uniformly called for giving the pilots every measure of protection possible in order to make our skies safer. But there are some folks who are leery of putting their trust in our Nation's pilots. I cannot understand the logic that says we can trust someone with a Boeing 747 in bad weather, but we cannot trust that same person with a Glock 9 millimeter.”