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In reply to the discussion: Security checkpoint at the movie theater [View all]Boomer
(4,168 posts)>> The anger will lead to eventual elimination of checkpoints via effective gun control.
Judging from the comments in this thread alone, the anger will be minimal and the checkpoints will expand. Look at all the posts that focus on shrugging off the searches as nothing more than management focused on candy sales. That may well be true -- motivations are always a black box -- but it does not make the searches any more acceptable to me; if anything, it makes them less palatable. The American culture of authoritarianism and crowd-control is growing. The appropriation of such searches for petty commercialism should demand MORE pushback, not less. Yet people seemed innured to the existence of the intrusion and are only minimally interested in discussing the possible motivations for it.
This to me is the core issue: we have accepted "safety measures" under the threat of terrorism and in response to mass-murder sprees and have now descended to accepting them for any reason at all.