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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
by 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 agoWe 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 agoNYC has 3.6 million daily riders. So guess I'm right.
- bdangubic 2y agoNYC 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.
- saagarjha 2y agoYou do realize where the twin towers were, right?
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