Realize that one screwed up person with a gun and opportunity could action the first scenario. Pilots licenses are more of a matter of cost than ideology, and p

Realize that one screwed up person with a gun and opportunity could action the first scenario. Pilots licenses are more of a matter of cost than ideology, and private planes aren’t subject to many of the security measures commercial airliners are. And the only group of people in the history of the world who have used a nuclear weapon to harm innocent civilians was the united states government. Chaotic events happen. People are terrified of them but having billions of dollars worth of surveillance state does not reduce the risk one iota.