Bless him..but will the government, state, or a swat team go in and get this baby out of there! ...WTH!!! IF IT WAS OBAMA THEY WOULD HAVE GOT HIM OUT BY NOW!

Anyone who has worked for, with or in homeless shelters knows the extent to which our homeless populations are mentally ill. When mental institutions were closed in the late 1980's, residents were sent back to their families & communities, neither of which were equipped to deal with their problems in the first place. Soon they populated city parks & libraries, businesses, 'tent cities' in woods & under bridges. Churches took them in on bitter cold nights until they started fires in a few. THIS is the ugly underbelly of our society that needs addressing by ALL the states and Congress. Congressional hearings should include officials from the American Bar Association and Psychiatric Association. Please write your state & U.S. representatives and call for this action, rather than rant about guns.

Pray for the boy & for the captor. Pray the captor's mind can somehow grasp the harm he's done & will turn himself in, or at the very least, let the boy out before he takes his own life. He obviously belonged in a mental institution long ago, but of course mental institutions were shuttered long ago when federal funding was cut off. Congress & states should address this need first & do it now.

What if, theoretically, the Bus Driver had been allowed to legally carry a permitted Concealed Weapon, and instead of dying and allowing the hostage to be taken, would have killed the perp immediately upon the perp's initial entry on the bus? Bad guy dead and hero alive, instead of the opposite. And no hostages. "Gun free zones have killed more people than my gun"

I read in another news source that the man had previously beaten a neighbor's dog to death with a lead pipe. Does anyone know why he was not charged with this? It seems like he should have already been in jail for animal cruelty. People who abuse animals very often abuse other people, especially the helpless. Perhaps intervention after he killed the dog would have prevented this hostage situation? Maybe/maybe not, but if anyone knows the details of that incident I would like to know what happened.

I am a mother of two beautiful children. One of them is in middle school and the other one is still in elementery school. I am also a gun owner and I have a permit to carry it. I believe they we should have the right to own guns. But more importantly, I believe that as Americans we should have the right to send our children to school and know they will come home safe at the end of the day. I know I don't have all of the answers to this nationwide debate we have going on right now, but I do know that something has to be done. No child and their family should have to go through this. My thoughts and prayers are with this child and his family as well as the family of the brave, heroic bus driver.

I am a mother of two beautiful children. One of them is in middle school and the other is still in elementery school. I am a gun owner and I have a permit to carry it. I believe we should have the right to own guns. But more importantly I believe as Americans we should have the right to send our children to school and know that they are going to come home safe at the end of the day. I know I don't have all of the answers to this nationwide debate going on, but somehing has to be done. No child and their family should have to go through this. My thoughts and prayers are with them and the family of the heroic bus driver.

Well, he's either going to kill himself (and possibly the boy) or it'll be a shootout and the police will kill him. It's just a matter of time. I just feel sorry for the mother of that boy and the family and friends of that wonderful bus driver. So sad.