In the case of the guy in Miami, he boarded the flight in Medilin, Columbia.

Understanding the amount of contraband that has been shipped form the Medilin area into the US... there's no reason to believe that someone couldn't have shipped a Stinger missile into their carryon luggage. 

Given that facts as they are currently understood there are only two victims...the Air Marshalls who took a life. Even the fatality isn't a victim here...with his mental illness he just turned into an elaborate "suicide by cop".

  I'm not sure I understand where there is even call for a debate on this issue, I don't give a crap what the guys problem was, if you're in an airport yelling that you have a bomb and get shot by a person who is employeed to protect people from the whacko's who are out there, too F-ing bad, as far as I am concerned there is one less lunatic and the air marshall should get a raise for taking care of business.

  You know damn well if the guy actually did detonate a bomb and killed a bunch of people, the same bunch of crybaby whiners would be bitching that the air marshall didn't do his job, so I say someone needs to tell all these piss'n' moaners to shut the F*** up!

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  I will just stay out of it, I have no sympathy for stupidity, I think people like this get what they have coming to them and of course they will use any excuse they can come up with to make this piece of crap look like a victim.
In my opinion we need more of this, maybe once people start to see that the authorities aren't playing around these dumbasses would think twice before doing or saying something so stupid as going around on an airplane or anywhere else threatening to blow people up.

  If anyone thinks my opinions are too harsh I apologize, but I just get so sick of the way people always try to defend the bad guys in these situations then try to twist it around and make the ones trying to do the right thing out to be murderers, people need to shut their mouths and open their eyes once in a while.

However unfortunate, I believe that the marshals reacted as they should have. In my opinion this was nothing more nor less than an elaborate suicide by cop. Regardless of his intentions if you say that you have a bomb, no matter where you are, you will be seriously injured or killed. A kid came to school and said that he had a knife with him. For his trouble he ended up with a dislocated shoulder and a fractured forearm for his trouble. In reality he did not have a knife, but in both the shooting and the incident at my school, you must pose the question "what if he really did."

Do any of us know just what the security measures in Medilin , Columbia are like?

No security measure is ever going to be perfect, that's why the Air Marshall program exists...as a last line of defence.

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Why would this affect you flying to the US?

The incident aircraft departed Medilin, Columbia bound for the US. The passenger screening would have been carried out in Columbia, by Columbian authorities. The US had no involvment except to place a Air Marshall team onto the flight. We've agreed that the AM team carried out it's assigned duties.

How does that reflect poorly on US aviation safety?

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I've not visited since 9/11 but from what I've read on the subject airport security in the US has always been suspect. More for show than anything else which gives the passengers false confidence. I don't know who is responsible for vetting passengers but in my view this should be down to the airline at both ends of the journey. I can't imagine El Al, who have been in this situation for much longer than most airlines, allowing anyone aboard one of their aircraft without first being subjected to a careful security check by their own security staff.

I have far more confidence in airport security in the UK. Some time ago Heathrow security detected a passenger in transit from the US to another destination carrying a gun & ammunition in his jacket pocket during a random check. If the security at the US airport he departed from had been doing ther job properly this should have been picked up before he ever boarded the aircrraft.

PS. I believe he boarded the aircraft in Washington DC.