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Subject: Guns On A Train
Written By: JamieMcBain on 09/18/09 at 1:05 pm
Hey, gun totting nutjobs, especially those with a grudge! Guess what? You can now carry guns on to Amtrak trains!
Happy, now?
Sheeeeesh......
::)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/opinion/18fri3.html
Subject: Re: Guns On A Train
Written By: JamieMcBain on 09/18/09 at 1:39 pm
How long before, something really bad happens on a Amtrak train, before they change their minds, and not allow guns on a Amtrak train?
This has bad idea, written all over it.
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By the way, someone was killed with a sword, on a bus in Canada, awhile back.
Subject: Re: Guns On A Train
Written By: Foo Bar on 09/19/09 at 9:40 pm
How long before, something really bad happens on a Amtrak train, before they change their minds, and not allow guns on a Amtrak train?
About as long as it does anywhere else. So what? What's someone with a firearm going to do on a train? Hijack it and drive it... where, specifically? They tend to be relatively restricted in their movements. You can't just tell the engineer to drive a train to Cuba. You don't even need Samuel L. Jackson saying he's had it with these m*bleep*kin' guns on the m*bloop*kin' train. Trains just don't work that way.
By the way, someone was killed with a sword, on a bus in Canada, awhile back.
Obviously, those Canadians need to follow the British example and implement stronger sword control laws. (It's sad, really - a couple of decades after the Brits banned guns after a guy went postal, the same "it's for the children" rhetoric is dusted off with the word "knife" replacing the word "gun". Exactly as predicted. By the 2050s, the country will be like the Monty Python self-defense sketch, full of people worried about what to do if someone comes after them with a banana.)
Subject: Re: Guns On A Train
Written By: LyricBoy on 09/20/09 at 8:09 am
This legislation affects CHECKED baggage.
As a practical matter this is vastly better than an all-out ban. Why? If one is not allowed to put their legally-owned firearm in their CHECKED baggage, then the chances that the person will simply try to carry it on his or her person to sneak it on the train will tremendously increase.
Besides, you can already put an unloaded gun in your CHECKED baggage at the airport anyway.
No biggie.