Re:20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes o...
by q1w2 on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @11:15AM
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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.
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Re:20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes o...
by wpietri on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @12:26PM
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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.