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> no one has planted a bomb on a bus What about the one that happened yesterday? http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/killed-blast-station-russias-s

• vxNsr 13y ago
  Off topic but: This is what happens when you support a volatile and people (terrorists) they come back and bite you too.
• cortesoft 13y ago
  Ok, I was clearly wrong about no one bombing a bus. However, my main point is still true; there are countless places where there are lots of people in confined spaces that are vulnerable to a bomb. We are always vulnerable to harm from someone who wants to hurt us, and there is very little we can do to make us invulnerable to random violence. Thankfully, the risk of dying from random violence is extremely low, near the bottom of the list of things that can kill us. We waste a lot of resources and time trying to prevent someone from harming us on an airplane when it is no more or less vulnerable than anywhere else.
  • bunderbunder 13y ago
    Fair enough. But factual issues aside, stating that nobody attacks ground-based transit systems weakens that point rather than strengthening it. If you want to argue that near-complete security is infeasible, you're probably better served by acknowledging that attacks on something as pervasive and porous as a bus system are a real possibility. So that's why I thought it was necessary to challenge you on that point.
• avn2109 13y ago
  It's worth noting that neither I nor anyone I know has heard of this bus bombing/mentioned it in conversation, and it's not on TV/frontpage of NYT, etc. But if we switch $Bus for $Plane, this becomes a major media event and everyone will know about it. What is it about aircraft that get the man and his propaganda machine so excited?