I know this would have been more relevant shortly after 9/11, but I just ran across this in a 1984 paper (pdf) by Bruce Benson: Several years ago, in an episode of “All in the Family,” Archie Bunker proposed a possible solution to the airline highjacking problem. He suggested that the government should arm all the passengers. Potential highjackers, fearing for their lives when confronted by a hundred or so armed adversaries, would no longer carry out these crimes. Archie pointed out that all the government would have to do is pass out the guns as the passengers boarded and … Continue reading Airline Highjacking: The Archie Bunker Solution