> 2) The fact that air passengers now know that a hijacking is not an inconvenience (or maybe a stop at an exotic destination), but is a death sentence. With any plausible armament that a team of hijackers could get into the cabin with even 1970's-era security screening, they absolutely cannot win against a planeload of people who are supremely disinterested in dying in a plane crash today.

The kind of languorous and spiritless attitude with which people argue for all this extra population control makes me think they would prefer those passengers sit calmly and sing Nearer My God To Thee.