Did he have a gun? Or any other weapon? Did anyone else have a gun? Is it legal to carry a gun on the metro, or is it more like airplane travel just without metal detectors?
The man causing the problems on the underground train was drunk and getting very bold with an unfortunate young lady traveling by herself. He began by displaying his strength doing pull-ups on the overhead handrail directly in front of her. He was already too close for comfort. My seat was right next to and perpendicular to the girls'. In his slurred Spanglish he complimented her looks, but only succeeded in creeping her out further and drawing threatening words and looks from a few intimidating young men in our car. I had remained silent, but I was ready to join the more verbose onlookers if need be. Serious warnings, violent threats, and some insults continued coming at the guy.
In light of all the gun talk recently, I wondered,"What if this guy gets angry and it ends up that he has a weapon, a knife or a gun?" I know for sure I want a law against him in particular from having a right to bear arms. But, if he's a bad guy, he might have a gun illegally anyway. If so, then I might hope that someone else has one. I might later hope that I had had one. I'd hate to see things escalate with more than one gun, but I'd also hate to see one, angry, drunk guy take control and cause havoc with the only gun.
Turns out he was unarmed. The only real action took place when the girl hit him in the face and a couple of us grabbed the drunkard forcing him to sit until his stop. No guns, no one hurt, conflict averted, and after the drunk left, all of us in the car felt a sense of camaraderie for having been ready to protect a young lady.
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