I for one am happy we have people armed on trasportation now, planes, trains hell arm up on the cota bus. And about the "1-in-a-frillion odds that some one is going to have a bomb". dont you think that the 246 people on the 4 planes of 9/11 wish some John Q was standing there with an "Uzi" when 14 people took over the planes with box cutters. I think that all the 2,974 people that died wish some Tough guy had a gun to "scare them". Its not a scare tactic its a deterent, Yes they are still going to try to blow them selves up... Its not that they are going to hijack a train and crash it into a building. Terrorists main goals are to scare people (casue terror hense the name Terrorists) and gain publicity. But if John q has his Uzi and Achmed starts making demands or start his Islamic radical preechings and the Guard/Cop has a weapon, and he sees a threat to everyone on that train and puts a few rounds in Achmed's chest and head. No boom (unless its on a timer or another is far off using a cell phone or another trigger device) but more than likely it is on a self triggering device. I have studied how and why they pick there targets. I am glad when I see our goverment taking a stand to protect us where we cant carry our weapons. I have been face to face with al-Qaeda, with insurgents and some bomb makers. Your right, they dont care if they die.. but if we show them that we are not taking a stand, they will keep on doing what they do best and another 9/11 will more than likely be the out come.
Now they may not be on the trains because of terrorists, In DC, our nations capital, you are more likely to be killed than in Iraq, As in Iraq the military men and women are amred and prepared for the worst.
Here is a report about this^^^^^
If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq
theater of operations during the last 22 months, and a total of 2,112 deaths, when this was written) that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000
soldiers.
The firearm death rate in Washington D. C. is 80.6 per 100,000 for the same period. (...and that was while handguns were outlawed!!)
That means that you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in the U. S. Capitol, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, than you are in Iraq.
This is not an attack on any bodys beleifs or me saying I am right, this is just my opinion... I just think we should think about why the goverment does what it does, I know that sometimes, alot of the time, it IS wrong or there is a better way to do it. But this is just my opinion.