>>1699339Stop parroting this. TSA's mandate only extends to checking passengers and baggage for explosives/incendiaries/weapons. They are not authorized to search for drugs, traffickers, or anything of the sort. That's far above their paygrade. They are the transportation equivalent of an FDA meat inspector, they are not law enforcement agents and do not have the authority to do anything more than check for a well defined list of contraband. Anything more than that is literally the job of Amtrak police, FBI, etc.
And yes, I am aware that TSA regularly oversteps their bounds and exceeds that mandate. Doesn't change what they are legally allowed to do, and courts have been more and more sympathetic in the past decade in reigning in TSA's practices of making up regs on the spot and exceeding their legal mandate in search of big busts to validate their existence.
And more specifically to your point
>Trains AND stations can be bombed, shot upSo can planes and airports, without ever having to interact with the TSA. Bombings or shootings can occur in the check-in and security checkpoint areas of airports, all of which are publicly accessible and could not feasibly be secured against such. Expanding the checkpoint out only changes the location of the large gathering of people a bad actor could target. Likewise, individuals can shoot at aircraft without ever entering airport property. TSA can't prevent this, and acting like they could prevent this with trains and train stations is even stupider.
