3 thoughts on “The Heroes On The Train”

1. Yes, courage is contagious. That’s why combat leaders care so much about morale and unit cohesion. Combat soldiers don’t risk their lives for the flag or some politician’s flowery speech. They do it for their friends. They do it to avoid being considered weak or a coward by the people who mean the most to them – their buddies.

2. I often wonder if people who favor TSA for trains have ever used an urban train or subway system.

   TSA works (badly) due to the very limited number of secure areas needed. For a TSA system for trains, you’d have to have secure areas, checkpoints, and screening, at EVERY station (often hundreds per city).

   TSA at airports serves its purpose well. The problem is that most people just don’t understand what its purpose is. It’s certainly not keeping terrorists off planes (TSA has never stopped an attack, and has a 95% failure rate in screening effectiveness). Its purpose is to make people THINK it works (even though it doesn’t, a fact the terrorists are well aware of), plus be a huge bureaucracy spinning off pork.

   What has stopped several airborne terrorism attempts? Passengers. Just like the heroes on the train, they saw the problem and acted. The left, of course, tends to dislike such things, because they prefer their citizenry pacifistic, helpless, and dumb.

   In a world where wolves exist, the synonym for “pacifist” is “lunch”.

   1. Well, it would neuter one of the current arguments for high speed rail, namely, that it doesn’t get the security lines like commercial air does.

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