OPINION
BY MICAIAH SIMON, Sophomore
BLYTHEWOOD - Since the beginning of time there have been obstructive people who terrorize social events. To provide safety to easily targetable areas, all social events should require thorough searches.
To be specific, theaters should require bag and person searches upon entrance. The problem that movie theaters have is that they check bags for a couple of weeks after a shooting; and then they stop. They check bags around the incident as if people will only target masses of people around the time someone else has.
Realistically if we are going to be cautious about human lives, security checks should not be seasonally based on when someone else decides to shoot. Instead of reacting to a domino effect shooting, why not try to prevent them all together?
“We only really checked bags around a shooting incident, after that it’s kinda forgotten about,” said Jourdyn Cowart a former movie theater worker in Poplarville, Mississippi.
According to Time Magazine, 42 percent of theaters across the country do not require security checks.
Just like anyone else I’d prefer my bag not be checked so I can sneak in my own candy and get in quicker, but when it comes to my safety, I’d rather not take chances.
News flash theaters: psycho's aren’t only going to attack after a previous incident. How about we prevent these events from happening all the time.
For some reason we still haven’t learned and think it's okay to ignore the safety of people going for entertainment. Disregarding the severe punishment, carrying out a shooting in a theater is made too easy, and it can give the killer what he/she wants: killing and 15 seconds of fame.
To avoid the argument on gun control on people with mental illnesses, according to the National Review, only 38 of 61 mass shootings in the past few years have been committed by people with a mental illness. But this is irrelevant because it can be avoided with security checks.
Upon entering the theater, there should be a metal detector and a bag checking station. This is the safest way to ensure people's safety.
With the terror occurring around the world we cannot afford low security, it is time to change things.
