>>2051371>Trains are and will be subject to the exact same sort of thing airports have like long security lines, restrictions on luggage, and overpriced food and drink in the stations.This sentence is doing all of the lifting in your post and half of it is wrong and the other half is baseless speculation. First of all, trains ARE NOT subject to the same exact burdensome security requirements as airports. I can literally show up 5 minutes before the train leaves and there is nothing between me and stepping on the train. So don't say that they ARE subject to the same nonsense as airports, because as of right now they ARE NOT. Secondly, you have no reason to believe this will magically change because we've updated the routes and trains. Some sections of the Acela route already hit 150mph, and again I can get on that train without dealing with an hour of TSA bullshit. So I'm sorry but if you're entire argument is
>IF someone successfully carries out a terrorist attack on a train at some point in the future then maybe you might have to deal with the same nonsense as an airport HYPOTHETICALLY!then you don't really have an argument. I'm not talking about the magic land of if and maybe that lives in your mind, I'm talking about reality as it is now, and the reality as it is now is that you don't have to deal with any of this crap to get on a 150mph train.