We have seen mass shootings at churches and day cares. If more armed people were there, maybe the loss of innocent life would not have been as great. I am sure that the perpetrators rely on the the fact that they will not face any resistance greater than a SAK.I never understood why someone would carry anything more than a SAK into a church, a day care, etc. Many times I will use discretion and drop a folder into the glove box before entering some buildings etc. I would think this to be common sense. But to each their own.
Weird, I live in Canada, carry ALL the time... and the only place I have ever had to check my knives is at the Parliament buildings...And on international plane flights.
I never understood why someone would carry anything more than a SAK into a church, a day care, etc. Many times I will use discretion and drop a folder into the glove box before entering some buildings etc. I would think this to be common sense. But to each their own.
We have seen mass shootings at churches and day cares. If more armed people were there, maybe the loss of innocent life would not have been as great. I am sure that the perpetrators rely on the the fact that they will not face any resistance greater than a SAK.
This. I'd rather have my ZT 0560 than a SAK if it came down to me having to try to disable a shooter.
Muphasta brings up something interesting (post #67)
It wouldn't surprise me if Disney parks and other such places have surveillance cameras watching everything, including the parking lot. I can imagine a bunch of security guards sitting in a room watching a wall of tv screens and zooming in on anything they find suspicious. Between crime, liability issues, and terrorism, it certainly makes sense that a big-name, multi-billion dollar company would invest in such security measures. So if you step out of line and go over to a bush/planter/etc to stash a knife, there might be a security guard watching you on camera.
It also wouldn't surprise me if security guards are taught to look suspiciously on people who get into line, then step out of line and walk over somewhere else, then step back into line. Such activity sounds like a person trying to hide something that they don't want security to find (weapon, drugs).
And it also wouldn't surprise me if a security guard were instructed to investigate and check that bush/planter/etc to see what was stashed there.
Something to consider before you think of just stashing your knife in a random place.
Their property, their rules, and the're covering their collective ass from the the litigious society that we live in.
Heaven forbid some a-hole goes to their park and injures someone. Guess who'll get sued for the largest amount? And win.
That said, it sucks that they have to do it, but they are smart to. And if that keeps you from going there, you must be boycotting a heckuva lot of places these days...
I boycott any place that automatically assumes I am a criminal or that I have criminal intent. They have the right to make the rules; I have the right to spend my money elsewhere.
This is the best post I have read here!! I agree!!!! John
I was a Walt Disney World cast member (what they call employees, since when you're at work you're "on stage") for three years back in the mid-seventies. No searches, no wanding, no metal detectors. It was truly the "happiest place on earth" back then.
I wouldn't give them a dime of my money now.