ARMED BUS DRIVERS: In response to my post about arming pilots, below, reader Mark Draughn writes:

So Tom Ridge says, “Where do you stop? If pilots carry guns [then] railroad engineers and bus drivers could ask to do the same.” He makes it sound like that would be a bad thing.

My alma mater, the Illinois Institute of Technology, operated a shuttle bus between the main campus and the downtown rail hub. The bus drivers were usually campus cops, who were real cops with real guns. Even when the bus broke down in a bad neighborhood, I never felt safer.

So there, Tom.

Of course, you start arming pilots, and bus drivers, and such, and pretty soon ordinary Americans might wonder why they can’t be armed. And we couldn’t have that.

UPDATE: No sooner did I post this than I saw Craig Schamp’s take on the subject.