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I have never been fond of most concert venues, especially inside ones.
Only concerts I attend are held at Ravinia, in Highland Park, Illinois. It is the oldest outdoor music venue in the US, originating more than 100 years ago. Capacity is 3500 and there is room to spread out.
While there is pavilion seating, most opt for lawn seats. Masses haul in wagons of folding chairs, tables, linens, lighting, food, wine and so on. Half the fun is walking around and checking out other people’s set-ups and decorations.
The concert venue is far removed from parking lots, homes and structures. Everyone is wanded. Every wagon and picnic basket is searched. There are no physical vantage points.
I am kind of sitting here with this feeling like, "are you serious right now?"
I'm going to one tonight. Actually. Not a chance I'm suddenly going to avoid anyplace where people gather in numbers just because of mass shootings. I also have not pulled my son out of school, despite the school shootings that have happened. You know what else? I like to travel by plane, even though plane crashes have happened!
Really that's what this reminds me of. I know people who literally will not fly in a plane, out of fear of a hijacking or a crash.
Yet they, and most who are talking about fearing a shooting, get in cars and drive around on the roads, ALL THE TIME. You're far more likely to die that way, you know. Oh, but there, we have this absurd illusion of control, that "well that won't happen to me, because I'm a very good driver." Uh, yeah, bad drivers aren't the only ones who die in car accidents.
Also I read an article not long ago that broke down some stuff about death-by-gun in America. Ah...found it...
About 30,000 people per year are shot and killed in the US, it said. Of those, about 2/3 are suicides. Out of the 10,000 remaining deaths, about 500 of them are accidental, and about one in ten of those will be a child. And only about 250 of them will be cases where an American is shooting a "bad guy" in a legally justifiable manner. Also you are about 1,500 times more likely to be shot by an American citizen in America, than you are a foreign terrorist. Around 1,000 people a year are shot by hunters, about 500 per year by mass shooters, and about 50 per year by terrorists. The article concludes that about 99% of the time if you shoot a human being, you are shooting yourself, committing a felony, or shooting someone by accident. Something like 1% of the time, you hit a "bad guy."
So I really am not going to structure my life or activities around fear of mass shooters, nor am I going to feel safer in a place where everybody is packing. Especially a place where everyone has a gun and alcohol is on tap. That seems like a bad idea to me.
Next poll question. Do you bring your own parachute whenever you fly?
If you don't, there is a possibility you will lose your life. Really. One of the biggest crashes in history the plane circled for hours and they knew they couldn't land.....you could have definitely jumped out a rear door with a chute.
If audience members are prohibited from bringing guns in, then I would only go if there were armed guards and metal detectors on check-in.
If audience members are allowed to bring guns in, then I would not expect armed guards. I would assume there are enough concealed weapon holders to provide protection.
THIS!
Bring enough concealed weapons and the bad guys will avoid it like the plague! They're all cowards looking for easy targets.
Even at that, the odds are 110,000-1 of being at a mass shooting event. To put that in perspective, the odds of dying in a car crash as a driver, pedestrian, cyclist, is 1 in 77.
I used to go to so many concerts back when I was a kid. Any group I liked that passed through the long beach arena back in the 80's I went to. Took the bus with my buddies and we knocked ourselves out.
Now, I just don't enjoy large gatherings, too many people get me jumpy. This was before the Vegas shooter. Would I attend a concert without armed guards, sure, if it were a smaller venue, you can't stop living your life.
I only see performers in small venues. Large concerts are of no interest to my family. We do go to roots events held in state parks in northern Florida. Lots of people, but not large crowds.
Never got that about armed guards, etc. If the good person with a gun is on the other side of the building, crowd, venue, place of worship, etc. when the bad person with a gun starts shooting, plenty of people can be killed or wounded before the good guys can get there. I don't think a minimum wage security guard will deter a person wanting to kill a bunch of people.
I only see performers in small venues. Large concerts are of no interest to my family. We do go to roots events held in state parks in northern Florida. Lots of people, but not large crowds.
Never got that about armed guards, etc. If the good person with a gun is on the other side of the building, crowd, venue, place of worship, etc. when the bad person with a gun starts shooting, plenty of people can be killed or wounded before the good guys can get there. I don't think a minimum wage security guard will deter a person wanting to kill a bunch of people.
Nothing will stop a sick person from killing. Without a gun, they have used trucks, cars, pressure cooker bombs etc.
I am my OWN security. I have a permit to carry a concealed weapon. If the concert will not permit me to exercise my constituional right, then I am not interested in supporting their concert.
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