In the same breath he included gun related fatalities too. I was wondering if anyone questioned him if it was his intention to propose diverting all government funds for roads and interstates highways to public bus transportation in cities an railroads between cities and a ban on guns?

Besides, the public transport in Europe today isn't what it use to be 30 years ago. There's plenty of road traffic. I got caught in a bumper-to-bumper snail track between Frankfurt and Wurzberg. It was only a 100 mile jog to a southern autobahn highway to Munich, but took 6 hours to make that exit. And the trains aren't used much because people own cars nowadays - they don't really need public transportation unless it's a big city like Munich, Frankfurt and Koln. So I have no idea what Ensign was talking about.