Posted on 09/16/2008 4:41:30 AM PDT by rellimpank
Learning to use pepper spray would be a good first step toward safety for Milwaukee County bus drivers, say drivers union officials.
But if that doesn’t work, officials say they’re ready to talk about something more powerful — even firearms.
Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. offered pepper-spray training last week in response to a videotaped attack on a bus driver for which Brandon T. Jackson, 24, of Milwaukee was charged over the weekend. Clarke also supports driver enclosures on buses.
But allowing drivers to carry guns would be a huge leap, Clarke said. He was thinking more along the lines of Tasers or batons, he said,
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I would like someone to do a study on how public transportation facilitates crime of all sorts.
I personally lived in a place where public transportation was used by creeps specifically to go to “rich neighborhoods” and steal cars and steal.
Just have to shoot one. The rest will behave.
so...the city of Milwaukee’s policy is: Guns for me but not for thee...
Tasers would work just fine, thank you.
One of these assailants lying writhing on the ground after getting 50,000 volts would be a sight worthy of You-Tube. And to be distributed to every hardcase neighborhood school, just as an object lesson to would-be young Crips or Bloods.
I don’t see them ever allowing the bus drivers to pack heat, and I see lots of tax dollars down the rat hole of our court system when the first perp is temporarily blinded by pepper spray, flails around while unloading his weapon and shoots an innocent bystander or two.
I grew up in Milwaukee. I escaped in 1970. I thank my Dad each and every DAY for getting us out of there.
Not only that but also the lawsuits from asthma suffers, heart disease patients and the other innocent bystanders that get sprayed who experience ‘adverse effects’.
I’ve been near the back of the bus when pepper spray was sprayed in the front (stupid high schoolers) and EVERYONE feels it.
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