Gotta love people who think a barrel shroud "is a thing that goes up".
As a local NY'er I can emphathize with her pain and loss and remember quite well the terror on the Long Island Rail Road that fateful day, but ironically, the first thing that pops into my mind, the same thing that pops into my mind when I think of VT, is that "would the damage have been minimized, or entirely eliminated, if there were only 1 person there that had a concealed weapon and the ability to use it?"