[Fozzie_DeBear]

horrifying...no doubt we will see some sort of rudimentary screening at bus stations now...but this could have happened anywhere the fact this guy snapped on a bus might just be a fluke...it could have been at a mall, or a restaurant.

I don't see any reason why, in this case, a gun would have saved anyones life...batman himself could have been on the bus with a gun and the victim would still be dead...although the victim likely still intact and the attacker would most likely be dead.

To Worth: Not to derail the thread but the protagonist in the Virginia Tech case had access to legal firearms (as I would assume would the rest of the citizens) and in that case access to guns didn't seem to help anyone.