These kind of articles always make me wonder where these scenarios are playing out - exactly where are drunks being shot on trains, etc.? Lots of cities in concealed carry states (like Texas and Florida) have trains and buses and no doubt lots of armed civilians - so where is the bloodbath.
Or perhaps they’re really scared of something else. That a gun will really be used in self-defense against a band of “locals” that make a career out of robbing IDIOTS from the suburbs that think it’s safe to go to the city for culture and crap like that. For now the city elders can just deny it ever happens, as the media won’t report it, since it “stigmatizes” protected classes of society - but when those IDIOTS start shooting back (and I only call them idiots because they go there in the first place), it will have to be reported - and that will pretty much be the end of “downtown” for millions of people, and billions of dollars.
But...but, these cities and states have lower crime rates. No liberal is ever going to see the connection between concealed carry and lower crimes rates.