THE TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION is strangling the popular armed-pilots program with bureaucratic red tape.

Does the Bush Administration care more about public safety? Or bureaucrats’ comfort?

A pro-gun Democrat like, say, Howard Dean might want to ask that question. It might even hurt Bush in pro-gun (and anti-bureaucrat) states like Tennessee or Pennsylvania. This is just more trouble for Bush, courtesy of the lame bureaucrats in homeland security.