Chumley Chumley:
DerbyX DerbyX:
the odds of anybody being able to intervene in time were "non-existent".
Because they weren't armed.
No. Even the police were saying it wouldn't have made a difference. The attack came without warning. Unless somebody was sitting on the bus physically holding a gun trained on the perp then nothing could be done.
In the end its just baseless speculation designed to bolster a political opinion about carry and conceal laws.
That side always argues that an armed citizen would be able to stop these events easily by very calmly and cooly shooting a rampaging perp with no collateral damage whatsoever.
That doesn't happen even with well trained cops and soldiers but somehow johnny accountant with his twice a week visits to a shooting range will become Charles Bronson ala death wish.
They never ever think that more people may day, including innocent bystanders when some vigilante wannabe panicks at the site of an armed man bearing down on him and starts firing blindly in his direction only to cap some sleeping 19 year old college student and a 37 year old mother of three who accidentilly stepped in the way of the firing line.
CKA Uber 
