I honestly don't think I could live in this country if this sort of thing became the norm for bus and rail travel. I take the train every day to work, each way and back, and given the crowding and delays, it would be so infeasible to have this sort of security theatre when no such threat to these transit systems exist.
I heard the same thing said about the atrocious security theatre at airports, especially the really busy ones like O'Hare. It was going to be temporary, I heard, because there was no practical way it could be permanent. It's been 9 years. Feels pretty permanent to me, as much as I wish that it didn't. I'm afraid at this point the question is whether we're too late with our outrage (or perhaps if the present outrage is sufficient, which it probably won't be.)
