This is, I think, a near perfect example of bungling bureaucracy with some combination of unreasoning administrators and lawyers making decisions they simply weren't qualified to make. Hopefully they won't wait for the FAA to sift through plane wreckage to find a bullet hole before they correct this.
BTW, the easiest way for a pilot to take down a plane is to simply push that yoke forward and throttle up. Those guys in the cockpit ALREADY have your life in their hands (literally).
For us, the American ideal is personified in the concept of self-reliance, work ethic, honesty/forthrightness, decency, personal property rights, family, religion, an ability to defend oneself from criminals and crooked politicians, and personal responsibility.
