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Originally Posted by drcoastline
One of your examples already uses the approach. More and more concerts require security checks, As do college and pro sports. Many bars and clubs are also requiring people to go through security checks looking for weapons. If you are carrying you do not enter. That's the kind of gun/weapon control I would want to see.
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And that would be an incredibly false sense of security you'd have while making daily life here as miserable as getting on an airplane.
When I took my NV CCW class in October, the instructor told me he was going to hand me a few guns to clear and pass around the room. He was of average build, wearing black slacks and a black golf shirt. He was slightly printing one full sized Glock and yet proceded to pull out 10, yes ten, handguns from concealment. It was almost like a magic act. I couldn't keep up with them all. You think someone like that wouldn't have a gun or two to give up during a patdown to make the cop think he'd found them all?
And as someone who goes to a lot of concerts and club gigs, the security at those things is a total joke. A quick "open your purse" or "raise your shirt" or get wanded. Puhleez. Do you think anyone who plans on committing mayhem is going to be caught like that? I could easily defeat those lame security measures. I know people who've gone through the mags at airports while carrying, forgetting they were carrying and then wondered how they were going to get the gun back home. The only thing making sure a crowd is mostly unarmed does is make them a more inviting target for the one bad guy.
And one last anecdote I've told here before. When I checked a gun in my luggage at Jacksonville, the captain summoned me to the cockpit AFTER we had landed and asked if I was the sky marshal. He said he had me on a list as having brought a gun onboard. Yes, he waited until we landed to ask me that. Metal detectors, unless they're being run by the Secret Service, are window dressing to make people think they're being screened and that no bad guys with guns get through. Hardly the case.