Do we care what Mandalay Bay wants?

Do people expect this to turn into a Utopian society like The Giver where all gun crimes will disappear if we do something? Passing more laws or throwing more money at a problem rarely works. The war on drugs, education and the war on terrorism are prime examples of that fallacy. We pass laws making it illegal to drive and text. Has that caused a decrease in car accidents?

Obviously spree killings won't disappear completely. So what number is acceptable to the anti-gun crowd? One a year? One every 10 years? Every 50? We hadn't had a major hurricane hit land for over 10 years, and then we had two and people seem to forget the years in between. The point is, tragedy will always be tragic no matter when the last one occurred. And regardless of when the last one occurred, it will be a prime time for people to get on their soapbox to demand changes be made.

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It was actually a tossed salad bar.

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GRAND SLAM!!!

Insert almost any current social problem in our country in the place of guns and the answer is the same.

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Then why did mass killings drop like a stone in Australia?

Thanks for the spoiler, jerk.

No, but they better not install metal detectors at Bellagio.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Mandalay Bay will do what they believe their customers (i.e., citizens) want, so yes, by proxy I do not think "we" would want metal detectors. Too much inconvenience for too little/rare benefit.

That being said, maybe a casino will view installing them as an opportunity to attract safety-minded customers who value that more than their time.

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so now we have the govt mandating the installation of metal detectors at evey public venue?

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

And magically everything will be OK, because clearly the absence of detection is a much bigger issue than prevention.

And mandatory white helmets for everyone!

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

All of the animals over there are looking to kill you, so maybe a disproportionate number of nutjobs just so happened to be eaten by Koalas or whatever.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

But not murders in general. In Ireland, Australia and England, the gun bans either had a static effect or actually caused murder rates to increase. It goes back to the point that bad people will do bad things with whatever is available to them. And I don't think Australia is going to start banning boomerangs and machetes and dune buggies and Crocodile Dundee.

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It's an island in the middle of an ocean!!!!!!

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Because Australians aren't a bunch of pussies


Australia's murder rate falls to record low of one person per 100,000
Report shows knives are most common murder weapon followed by guns, with alcohol and beatings a big factor

Interesting.

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GO BEARS!!!

I'll take my chances against boomerangs and machetes any day of the week.

The next step at a hotel...a terrorist(foreign or domestic) will rent a room for a few days and build a bomb in the room, big enough to take the entire building down...think a popular hotel near Times Square, perhaps on New Years Eve? You won't seen TSA like screenings at hotels, but you will seem some basic searches...just like at Theme Parks/Stadiums now.

You do realize just how low the odds are of ever being near a mass shooting is?

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I'd say roughly 32 miles from where I'm sitting, so pretty good.

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Higher than an American plane being hijacked?

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GO BEARS!!!

Plane hijackings have essentially been eliminated via regulations(yes, that can be inconvenient at times).

I said mass shootings.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

An incident involving multiple victims of firearm violence?

Me too. As long as I have my pistol on me.

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Inconvenient is an understatement.

We could eliminate automobile fatalities if we reduced the speed limit to 15 mph. Would people accept that tradeoff?

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A little easier to control what and who gets on and off a plane with 400 people max then it is a 2700 mile country bordering two other countries and hundreds of ports on two ocean fronts with over 300 million people. And we have no-fly lists, but sadly pretty much anyone can come into our country.

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I'LL TAKE IT!

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

I was speaking to hotel security moving forward...which would be a mild inconvenience at best. Most major office buildings in big cities have similar security..you would just implement it for hotel guest. Or watch a building go 'boom'...eventually.