It's come under fire from the overly gun-centric part of the self defense community, who decry that they didn't recommend shooting back; some of them even go so far as to charge that Amtrak is "encouraging people to be victims" or "promoting gun control".
...Think of it this way: which would you rather have your kids do at school when an active shooter breaks in — huddle in a corner behind an overturned table and wait for the end, or swarm the gunman and hit him in the head with the fire extinguisher that's hanging on the wall?
...But these are the kinds of environments in which we sometimes are required to live, and I'd rather people internalize the idea that they're not helpless, that they can fight back and prevail over an attacker, rather than lament the fact that they're not carrying their favorite pistol and are therefore defenseless.
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