According to the news, Air Marshals helped to thwart the...

[Robeson]

..."potential" terrorist. I'm going to make an assumption here, which may or may not be correct. But if our country had had a fully funded Air Marshal program, with one on every flight, could 9/11 have been avoided? I mean, could box cutters have competed against a gun, with one who was trained to use it?

One B-2 bomber costs 2.1 billion dollars. And that bomber has ZERO effect on the war on terrorism. I haven't done the costs comparisons, but I would imagine that 2.1 billion dollars would go a long way to put an Air Marshal on every flight.

[RandomThoughts]

1. Don't you mean air marshals in many global corporate board rooms?

[grantcart]

2. Or simply having doors that were completely secured and could not be breeched

BTW the Marshal program also uses other federal law enforcement officers to expand its numbers when needed, ICE for example.