if this guy walked into a theater loaded with knives only...

[thucythucy]

123. So you're in favor of banning box cutters and knives

on airliners, but not guns in movie theatres? Because banning box cutters and knives on airliners "is as it should be" but banning guns in theatres, not?

One of the arguments of those who oppose any sort of gun restriction after an event like this is--it won't work. People will cirumvent the control, so therefore it's useless to even try.

People circumvented the ban on box cutters and knives on airliners to commit 9-11, yet I didn't hear a single person say, "See, box cutter control on airliners doesn't work, let's scrap the whole idea." Instead, controls got tighter.

BTW, I'm not arguing for banning guns in theatres--political impossibility, probably a practical one as well. Though if theatres, restaurants, bars etc., started offering "gun free environments" the way some used to offer "smoke free environments" I'd go there, especially if I was taking children. Walking through a metal detector would be worth it to me, if it meant less chance of the children in my family being gunned down by some wacko, or shot in a cross-fire.

Just my opinion, is all.