If I might chime in, Deuce, I think you're making several logical mistakes here.
1.) You argue from the extreme at nearly every turn. A nuclear-tipped ICBM being carried into the U.S. on some rich Saudi's private plane is not a scenario from which we should begin, agreed? Even with all the "nuances" involved in such a hypothetical situation, it's a moot point. Said Saudi has no rights outlined in the Constitution. None. But even beyond the absurdist view, we can't find common ground if your immediate response is to think of the most unlikely and objectionable scenario possible. Keep it grounded in reality, like your explosives in the beer cooler example.
2.) You're confusing issues. When I get on a plane, I've entered into a contract for services with the airline. If one of the airline's conditions for traveling on their craft is that no passenger may carry a weapon on his or her person, I can either comply with that condition or I can find another mode of travel. It's entirely my choice. Where my objection comes into play is when the TSA, a federal agency, makes that condition. The government's ability to infringe on my right to bear arms is explicitly denied by the Constitution, regardless of the current situation. In short, the TSA's regulation of air travel in this way is unconstitutional, by definition.
3.) The rest of your scenarios are faulty simply because regulating gun rights does nothing to provide a solution. A man carries explosives in his beer cooler? Surely someone so unstable can and will do so with or without a government ban on private ownership of AR-15s, no? A man takes a hunting rifle and shoots up a mall? Same thing.
To summarize, you seem to only support gun rights within reason. The problem with that outlook is two-fold:
1.) Who's reason is paramount? The supporters of the Brady Bill? Members of a Michigan militia? Obama's? The NRA's?
2.) The Founding Fathers made no such distinction. They simply said the Second Amendment was necessary to the security of Free State. They fully expected citizens to be armed with the latest technology, as they all had been.
