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> I guess there weren't any good folks on that train carrying other than the criminal? Around here, that guy would have looked like swiss cheese. We don't play that game.

Let's see. There was the Amtrak passenger with a gun who shot an Amtrak conductor in suburban Chicago. Then we recently saw the Amtrak passenger with an arrest record a mile long who was smuggling drugs and in possession of a gun shoot and kill a DEA agent in Tucson.

Now this incident.

So what's the next step? TSA airport-style security checkpoints at EVERY Amtrak station? And it would have to be EVERY one because, pretty soon, the bad guys would figure out that they could avoid the intense security screening at, say, Chicago by boarding the train at an unstaffed Amtrak glorified phone booth-style station with no security as, for example, Dwight, IL.

What's the next level of security after that? Are we going to have TSA airport-style security at every bus stop for a city transit bus?

It's hard to get people out of their private automobiles and onto public transportation when they don't know if the crack pot sitting two rows away is packing heat.