by WashingtonPark
eolesen wrote: ↑Tue Nov 07, 2023 6:28 pm Hey, it's not my idea to impose this. Ask Congress why this is being discussed -- I do know it's not about the food, since nothing stops you from bringing food on Amtrak.Never said the AMTRAK stuff was about the food. Last time I checked Amusement Parks weren't stopping operations for 20 minutes nor were sports stadiums stopping games to check out somebody trying to get in that the mall cops thought needed to be checked out. If you're fine with adding hours to the schedules and dollars to the fares to pay for super enhanced security for something that rarely happens on AMTRAK and constantly happens on city public transit than that's your right and you can push for it. I just see it as one more solution in search of a problem because the people in Washington are totally incapable of solving any real ones.
Amusement parks have had metal detectors for over a decade because gang violence was showing up inside their gates.
Chicago added metal detectors to visit a park in the Loop, again because of gang violence.
Union Station in DC was on partial lockdown today because of someone seen carrying a rifle across the street.
Someone attacked someone with a freakin' machete on Amtrak.
DEA got into a shootout with another person.
It's not about the food.
It's about the 302 assaults and 370 drug offenses on Amtrak trains in 2021.
Keep coming up with reasons why it's not necessary, but it won't change the fact that, as I've said in other threads, we're just another serious incident or two away from security theater coming to Amtrak.