The man is stupid.

Sen. Charles Schumer is calling for better rail security now that the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound has turned up plans to attack trains in the U.S.

“Anyone, even a member of al-Qaida could purchase a train ticket and board an Amtrak train without so much as a question asked,” Schumer said. “So that’s why I’m calling for the creation of an Amtrak no ride list. That would take the secure flight program and apply it to Amtrak trains.”

Schumer said Sunday that he will push for the creation of a “do not ride” list for Amtrak. The list would be similar to the no-fly list that keeps those suspected of terrorism from flying into or out of the United States.

Hey dummy, if you want to attack a train, you don’t need to be on it—you destroy the tracks.

Besides, it’s not like attacking a passenger train—outside the Northeast corridor—is a particularly “good” target from a terrorism standpoint. It’d be far better to attack a shopping mall.

Finally, if terrorists really wanted to do some damage, they wouldn’t target passenger trains at all—you’d target a freight train carrying really nasty chemicals.

Someone needs to smack Schumer upside the head with a clue-by-four.