Introduction Airline pilots are individuals who are accorded high degree of trust and respect and require enough security for their safety as they embark on their flight. This is because of the mentality with the crooks and other terrorists that airway is one of the most and formidable way of committing international crimes such as terrorism and abduction. Airway is the latest means where terrorists prefer to humiliate and take revenge to their enemy for example the September 11 2001 terrorism attack. Argumentive Essay Pilots as I stated are individuals who are accorded high dignity and in the process their safety should be maintained without hesitation (Hopkins, 2004). Pilots are people who carry special dignitaries and if they are accorded that responsibility of carrying even the presidents, I don’t see the reason why they should be denied that chance of licensed guns. Therefore, I support the idea that pilots should be allowed to carry guns. Further more pilots do carry expensive things especially the commercial cargos and if they are trusted with those cargoes why then should they not be allowed to carry guns. In the first place it is very easy for pilots to communicate, collude or leak any information if they like but majority don’t. So I belief pilots should carry licensed guns. Many people oppose this idea of arming pilots including the airline officials themselves<www.freeessays123.com This is because many people think that having guns in the airplane is very risky. This is so because attackers may target and posses the gun which later would be used to hijack the aero plane. But my argument is that prevention is better since not all airline crimes that may happen have magnitude as terrorism. For example, according to pilot Luckey, the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, would have been prevented if the pilots were armed beside the Federal Flight Deck Officers. Some of the attackers are minor crooks who can be stopped by the pilots and other security details. For example an airplane may have an emergency landing in remote areas or in the forests and having a gun would stop any attack including wildlife animals. It is absolutely necessary good to arm the pilots because in many events terrorism has occurred in the airplane when other officers such as air Marshall are armed. Therefore, they don’t protect the pilots absolutely because the Marshall protects both the passengers and the cabin. Again the federal flight deck officer protects the cockpit door but they are easily attacked without their knowledge because they are visible to the passengers and other people who would strike but the pilot is not. Therefore his gun would somehow easily help when these officers are outdone. Actually, commercial airline pilots ought to be armed after going a proper training on how to use guns and when depending with the scenarios. This is for their own protection since passengers are protected by the Marshall (Ellen Hopkins, 1997). I belief if commercial pilots are properly trained on how to use the arms, there would be no problem on arming them. Once again pilots are people who come along way and they are accorded high degree of respect and trust. Therefore,