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Armed pilots, yes, i was one of those, and i know the training that we went through before we were carrying weapons on the aircraft in the post-9/11 world, so -- and i concur with him. it is not uncommon at all to have law enforcement officers on flights and so that there's multiple levels of protection from a security standpoint. >> okay. let me reiterate for anyone just joining us what we are covering here. the good news is we don't have any injuries or passenger safety concerns at this point at atlanta hartsfield international airport. however, we know at 1:30 p.m. today, a weapon accidenta...

Doors, armed pilots, crew self-defense training as well as air marshals. >> rene, thank you. let's talk about this video. why did you decide to do this? >> because nobody is moving quick enough. it's 13 years later. and we seem now to have airlines -- we had one airline, united airlines had installed these secondary barriers on a lot of their aircraft. now the merger happened between united and continental, the new ceo has decided to remove the secondary barriers from the oncoming aircraft and it sets a dangerous precedent. we have our airline companies that are minimally complying with what i...

You are all for security. let me read this, this is part of your cnn.com opinion piece that jumped out at me in this post-9/11 era. you said i was never a fan of armed pilots. another flight attendant might have felt insured, but when i walked into a cockpit to find a pilot with a gun on his lap, i was rattled. i had met the guy before, had no reason to distrust him, but even the thought of an incident was enough to question my safety. is it about people or is it about guns? >> it's a little bit of both, when you're adding -- you can screen people, but you don't know what's going to happen lat...

Passengers would come back. and i think that's a huge security problem now, and that is that the public is not on the same payabge as the tsa. and that needs to be brought together. >> what's the difference between now and 10 years ago? why is it ok to bring a knife on a plane now that it wasn't 10 years ago? >> locked cockpit doors. air marshals. passengers who will rip your head off if you try to do something. there are thousands, many thousands of armed pilots. there are thousands of armed federal officers. >> the pipilots themselves are in the cockpit? >> yeah. >> on their own initiative? ...