To me, when there is nothing to hide, nobody minds.
God bless you always!!!
Holly
Nobody minds not-hiding something.
What people do mind is having their privacy invaded.
To me, safety should be more important than privacy if it isn't already yet.
God bless you always!!!
Holly
As a famous wise guy said, "Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security."
This isn't much of a security measure anyway. Who carries bags into a movie theater? Women. Yet shooters, in any setting, are virtually
always male.
In this culture women habitually walk around with purses or handbags; men do not. So it would be "normal" for a woman walking into a theater to be carrying some kind of compartment, while a male carrying something into a theater -- a place where there's no reason to carry anything in -- would stand out as suspicious.
Remember that theater shooting in Lafayette less than a month ago? The shooter had no bag. Surveillance video shows him carrying nothing. As others have pointed out here, a gun carrier has plenty of other places to hide a firearm, no bag needed -- which is apparently what he did.
Yet his victims that he killed were both women.
In effect, this policy would be sniffing into women's purses for stuff they're hardly likely to be doing, while a male shooter, his firearm tucked somewhere else, walks right in so he can shoot them. That's adding injury to insult. And coming in the aftermath of that shooting, this Regal policy is basically a case of slamming the barn door after the horse has already left, besides being wrongheaded about its target.
If Regal or other movie theaters genuinely want to address the issue, maybe they should stop running crap films that consist of an endless sensationalist barrage of bullets, car chases and screaming. Do something that actually addresses that cultural cancer directly.
