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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nI guess the French recognize heroism when they see it. Just days after three Americans and a Briton rescued hundreds of people from a Moroccan gunman, French President Francois Hollande presented the Legion d’Honneur at the Elysee presidential palace to British businessman Chris Norman, Spencer Stone, Anthony Sadler and Alek Skarlatos. For some reason, he also presented the award to U.S. Ambassador to France Jane D. Hartley, and Hollande called President Obama to thank him<\/a>, for whatever Obama did to stop the criminal. I guess it’s like when Obama took out bin Laden;<\/p>\n French President Francois Hollande on Saturday offered his “heartfelt thanks” to his US counterpart Barack Obama for the “exemplary conduct” shown by three US citizens who overpowered a suspected jihadist gunman on a packed Amsterdam-Paris train, the Elysee said.<\/p>\n Their actions helped prevent “an extremely serious” incident, Hollande’s office said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I guess that after this attack, the London railway attack in 2005 and the Madrid train bombings in 2004, terrorism “experts” are starting to spot the vulnerabilities of trains to terror attacks, according to the New York Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n A 2011 report by the Department of Homeland Security found security gaps at many Amtrak stations. Congress and security experts have long debated whether to institute screening systems at railroad stations similar to those at airports, but plans have gone nowhere \u2014 largely because of cost and resistance from passengers.<\/p>\n Amtrak, particularly on its high-speed train, the Acela, has cut into the airlines\u2019 share of passengers in the busy Northeast corridor because of frustrations with airport screenings. Between New York and Washington, Amtrak said, 75 percent of travelers go by train, a share that has grown steadily since the Acela began service in 2000 and airport security tightened after 2001.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Well, European gun control doesn’t seem to be working, so yeah, let’s add more government interference to train travel. If I can’t drive, I won’t go, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"