Are there enough security measures for bus travel?

[CBC News]

Police are investigating a stabbing aboard a Greyhound bus bound for Winnipeg, an incident in which a young man was attacked by another passenger as the vehicle travelled through northwestern Ontario.
The man who was stabbed is believed to be in his 20s. He was taken to hospital Sunday afternoon with minor injuries, the Sault Star newspaper reported.
The incident comes less than two months after a Greyhound passenger beheaded Tim McLean, a 22-year-old man from Winnipeg, sparking questions about security on buses.
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Are there enough security measures for bus travel? Do you feel safe taking the bus?


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[L Gilbert]

Confused. I thought I already posted a comment in this thread about knifings.

I looked back a bit. I did post about bus knifings but it was a different thread. http://forums.canadiancontent.net/news/77354-another-greyhound-knife-attack.html

 

[karrie]

you're so easy to confuse Les. ;-)

 

[L Gilbert]

I know. Wife says I am cute cuz of it.

Kinda reminds me of Socrates, though, many threads about bashing Harpy when one thread with many bashes in it would do.

 

[karrie]

well, unfortunately CBC has a bad habit of not bothering to read before he posts, to see if someone else already brought the issue up. It's part of why I give him neg reps. lol.

 

[lone wolf]

Someone's been feedin'em greedies.... They have two up now!

 

[Trex]

Are there enough security measures for bus travel?

I heard the Liberal controlled senate prevented Harpers little-discussed
"Greyhound bus security bill" thus its
Dion's fault that these problems are occuring.

 

[Ron in Regina]

With Canada's aversion to handguns, arming the citizenry for their own protection
becomes problematic. This might be a "two birds with one stone" type of solution
that might make a criminal think twice about stabbing the non-criminal public, and
increase voter turn-out at the same time.

Every citizen that shows up and votes in the next Federal election is issued a belt
knife (from a Canadian manufacturer). Even if 30 million voters show up, it's might
still be one of the smaller boondoggles in any Federal budget, and might make the
average criminal thing that the average victim might not be a defenseless as they
once where. If you're responsible enough to get off your butt to perform your
civic duty and vote, you must be responsible enough to carry a non-concealed
belt knife that anyone can legally own anyway.

"That's not a voting knife, THIS is a Voting Knife!!!!" Hell....it's a win-win situation.
Canadians can wear them with pride (creating unity), and this might lead to people
having cleaner fingernails, and ease the opening of envelops, and removing staples,
and so on an so forth....We could be like the Swiss, but with knives.