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how is the theatre also necessary?

• bdangubic 2y ago
  it is necessary so that some Adam Lanza-wannabe doesn’t get any ideas on how to quickly become infamous
  • cogman10 2y ago
    The school shooters do that because it's shocking and gets in the news. We have so many crowded situations throughout the world where an equal splash could be made. We need about as much security around the airport as we need around a subway or a concert. After the dark knight shooting, we didn't find the need to put up xray scanners in every movie theater. It's dumb to do that with airports. Were I to guess, the reason we focus so heavily on airports is because our lawmakers fly more than most of the population. The theater is likely their safety blanket.
    • bdangubic 2y ago
      We need about as much security around the airport as we need around a subway or a concert. as soon as we have 2.7 million people in subway and/or concert daily in the US you'd be right... until then...
      • cogman10 2y ago
        NYC has 3.6 million daily riders. So guess I'm right.
        • bdangubic 2y ago
          NYC is an island... doing shit on the NYC subway disrupts bunch of people living on a (largely populated) island. doing shit on airplanes causes country-wide (and beyond) issues.
          • cogman10 2y ago
            > doing shit on airplanes causes country-wide (and beyond) issues. Like what? In the absolute worst case it grounds flights nation wide and 100 people die. In the grand scheme of things that's a minor hiccup and not a likely outcome. We saw a bigger impact from the polar vortex. The security simply doesn't match the value. I'll remind you that 70 people died from an airplane accident. Tragic, but we were hardly impacted by it. When you talk about 2.7 million flyers, the impact of a few hundred dying a year still makes it one of the safest forms of travel. Airplanes aren't special and shouldn't have the annoying special security treatment they do today.
            • bdangubic 2y ago
              if few hundred died per year that number 2.7 would not be millions but maybe hundreds :)
              • cogman10 2y ago
                A few hundred do die per year. In 2023 it was 327.
          • saagarjha 2y ago
            You do realize where the twin towers were, right?
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  • Lammy 2y ago
    Security theater guarantees a giant line of people right in the front where that crowd is most easily accessible instead of at the back if those people could go straight to their gates. I would rather see news media stop making every one of those people infamous so it ceases to be a way to get a bunch of attention.
    • bdangubic 2y ago
      I would rather see news media stop making every one of those people infamous so it ceases to be a way to get a bunch of attention. amen! but we know that ain't happening
  • sealeck 2y ago
    That's like imagining school shooters won't get an AR-15 and do a school shooting because you put an otherwise unarmed guy with a baton by the front gate.
• jghn 2y ago
  It's "necessary" because the TSA is largely just a jobs program, albeit one that is palatable to the median American.