It 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.

I 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-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.

Yeah, isn't it to prevent hooligans from bringing weapons into the stadium?

That'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.

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