MetroLink Assault Highlights Government-Mandated Defenselessness

By David Codrea

By David Codrea

USA – -(Ammoland.com)- A man was viciously assaulted and robbed on a St. Louis MetroLink train by “several young men” who held him, beat him and went through his pockets, KTVI Fox 2 Now’s “You Paid for It Team” reported Monday. The attack happened days after a student “was terrorized on the train.”

MetroLink’s spokesflak made soothing, meaningless noises, but no concrete changes should be expected from buck-stops-there patronage bureaucrats. They blame “a provision in its contract with the various [police] departments.” The agency spends millions of taxpayer dollars each year contracting for security, but has no way of knowing where police are deployed. And the additional security personnel they say they’re adding don’t even have arrest powers.

Even if they did, and were armed with more than walkie-talkies, that’s hardly a guarantee of passenger safety. A story from a couple years back about a New York subway passenger stabbed multiple times by a murderous madman revealed that an officer who witnessed the attack hid! Which was fine, because the city’s position …Read the Rest

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