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After a few train hijackings or whatever I'm sure we'll need mugshots to ride it too.

• JimmyAustin 4y ago
  Given that it’s hard to hijack a train and put it on a course for Cuba, I don’t think train hijackings are a real threat.
  • olliej 4y ago
    The TSA was born out of 9/11 - prior to 9/11 the assumption was “we’re been taken to Cuba” and so no one fought back until it was sadly too late. In the post-9/11 world people aren’t going to just silently wait for rescue, and the core threat (the ability to enter the cockpit) has been stopped. Hijacking a plane to go somewhere (at least in US airspace) isn’t going to work. So any attack will be terrorism. Assuming something planned (as 9/11 was) you can “easily” kill a lot of people with a train - as numerous accidental derailments have demonstrated.
• pengaru 4y ago
  If trains could sprout wings and become guided missiles sure... but passenger HSR is fairly constrained in its destructive/terrorism potential compared to jets.
• olliej 4y ago
  The reason 9/11 was possible was that pre 9/11 passengers on aircraft were expected to cooperate a wait for authorities and hostage negotiators. Post 9/11 that’s not a thing that people will allow happen, but now even if they did, breaking into cockpits is essentially not possible - as evidenced by the pilot murder/suicides that now require at least two people in the cockpit at all times. The most common reason for guns and threats of gun usage on flights in the last decade of us flights have been us air marshals getting in arguments, or simply leaving their guns lying around aircraft. The TSA theater is BS that has nothing to do with making people safer, so the existence of an actual threat isn’t relevant.