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Is the primary goal of security at a college football game to stop a suicide bomber? I strongly doubt that's how they see it.
by wpietri 5y ago
Is the primary goal of security at a college football game to stop a suicide bomber? I strongly doubt that's how they see it.
- lexapro 5y agoYeah, isn't it to prevent hooligans from bringing weapons into the stadium?
- duxup 5y agoThat's not really a problem for college football, or really any sport in the US. For whatever reason the hooligan thing isn't a system in the US.
- jazzyjackson 5y agoalcohol more like
- q1w2 5y agoIt worked in Paris a few years ago. Two suicide bombers were stopped at security and detonated their suicide vests - no other people were killed besides the terrorists.
- wpietri 5y agoI agree it may also do that. My question is whether that's the goal of people inspecting bags at college sports. When I was in college, campus security already banned a range of items at sports games. In 1989, they made national news for adding marshmallows to the list of banned objects: https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/26/sports/michigan-to-ban-marshmallows.html https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/26/sports/michigan-to-ban-ma... That suggests to me that college stadium security is mainly about policing mundane behavior at college stadiums, and very little to do with terrorism.