schrammalot
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Jun 28, 2013
If they're adding in more metal detectors, great! If they make everyone go through it, even better.
Metal detectors are great but it's not going to do anything about the guy who pulls out his Ak 47 before he nears the park entrance and starts shooting...
I was at Epcot on Thursday, Saturday and Monday. What they did was add tables for bag check by the gated exits (the ones that look like a gate but are actually doors) on both sides. Metal detectors now right at the bag check tables, there's a CM telling people with strollers ad wheelchairs to go to one side (CM with wands there) then another metal detector for no bags then all the other tables for everyone else. It is more efficient. Everyone has to go through metal detectors now. No matter the time of day
I was at Epcot on Thursday, Saturday and Monday. What they did was add tables for bag check by the gated exits (the ones that look like a gate but are actually doors) on both sides. Metal detectors now right at the bag check tables, there's a CM telling people with strollers ad wheelchairs to go to one side (CM with wands there) then another metal detector for no bags then all the other tables for everyone else. It is more efficient. Everyone has to go through metal detectors now. No matter the time of day
I personally wouldn't mind it if everyone had to walk thru them!
I don't mind being a dissenting voice here. Personally, I despise the idea that everyone has to go through metal detectors. No, I don't have anything to hide, nor do I even own a gun, let alone would consider carrying one into a theme park. What I don't like is sacrificing my personal privacy in the name of a false sense of security. How many shootings occurred in the parks before metal detectors? How many people have been apprehended trying to sneak a gun into the parks without actually going through a metal detector? As has already been stated, most of the real security goes on unseen. That's why these guys who've tried to sneak a gun in have been caught. Anyone who actually believe that you can just tote an AK-47 or an AR15 into the park has never actually held one and should really check their gun phobia at the gate too. It's called "Security Theater." Look it up.
So should they wait until there IS a mass shooting at a park before they try and prevent another? You don't need an AK-47 to kill someone. The airport shooter had a handgun and still managed to kill 5 and injure more. I think it would have happened eventually, and the families of those involved would have wondered why they waited until it did to do something. Bring on the metal detectors.I don't mind being a dissenting voice here. Personally, I despise the idea that everyone has to go through metal detectors. No, I don't have anything to hide, nor do I even own a gun, let alone would consider carrying one into a theme park. What I don't like is sacrificing my personal privacy in the name of a false sense of security. How many shootings occurred in the parks before metal detectors? How many people have been apprehended trying to sneak a gun into the parks without actually going through a metal detector? As has already been stated, most of the real security goes on unseen. That's why these guys who've tried to sneak a gun in have been caught. Anyone who actually believe that you can just tote an AK-47 or an AR15 into the park has never actually held one and should really check their gun phobia at the gate too. It's called "Security Theater." Look it up.
Because I have a constitutional right to be free from illegal or unreasonable search and seizure. And I never said I wouldn't do it. I just resent it. I'm a diabetic and on an insulin pump. My pump doesn't usually set off the metal detectors and isn't sensitive to it, but some glucose sensors can't go through the detectors. Those people have to get patted down every time. I've had that experience at the airport when I had the sensor. Trust me, it's an invasion of your privacy.Just curious here, how does going through the metal detector sacrifice your personal privacy? It's not a full body scan so no one sees anything, it just detects metal. I would think the bag check invades your privacy more since they are rifling through your stuff. They aren't patting you down, if it beeps they wave the wand.
You don't need a gun or even something metal to kill someone either. And please don't go there - "it would have happened eventually." You do not and cannot know that. It's irrational fear talking. All I said was I don't like them. You can try to convince me that they're a good thing or they make everyone safer... you may or may not be correct. Either way, I still don't and don't have to like them.So should they wait until there IS a mass shooting at a park before they try and prevent another? You don't need an AK-47 to kill someone. The airport shooter had a handgun and still managed to kill 5 and injure more. I think it would have happened eventually, and the families of those involved would have wondered why they waited until it did to do something. Bring on the metal detectors.
A couple weeks ago at MK - there were metal detectors right after the bag check area - but I was not directed to go to them - and you could easily just walk around. But most people seemed to line up to go through them. Was I supposed to go through them? Or were folks just being cattle and following the person in front of them?
At DisneyLAND last summer - now there - the way they had up fences - there it was clear everyone had to go through them - you couldn't just walk around - fences directed you to go through the metal detector.
You have a constitutional right to be free from illegal search and seizure by the government but that right does not extend to you in the private sector.Because I have a constitutional right to be free from illegal or unreasonable search and seizure.