[causasui]

As someone who has regularly ridden Amtrak trains the past 15 years, I've actually always been surprised at the lack of passenger possession screening before boarding. Anyone can bring anything they want onto a train, at any time.

A lot of the comments here are laughing at the absurdity of a train hijacking, but I think the greater threat is someone or some group of people choosing a packed train as the very soft target it is for a domestic terrorist attack or mass shooting.

To be clear, most places in America are soft targets for people who want to perpetrate mass casualty events. But while generally people can run and hide, there is no where to run and nowhere to hide on a train.

I'm surprised we don't see more of it, being honest. Only a matter of time.

[kortilla]

This is ridiculous. There are emergency brakes all over and people are spread between cars and cabins.

List of places where people are more exposed with no places to hide: - a TSA line at an airport (bonus because victims very unlikely to have their own fire arms) - a lecture hall at a university - a Walmart - a movie theatre - a Costco on a Saturday

> I'm surprised we don't see more of it, being honest. Only a matter of time.

You haven’t really thought this through. There isn’t anything special about the train here. The only thing that is special is how obsessed we are with airports.

[causasui]

So ridiculous, in fact, that the very next day after I made the original comment, some psycho shot 10 people on a train in NYC.

[kortilla]

10 people is fewer than you could get on a bus. You didn’t make the point you thought you did.