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Guests at several amusement parks in the United States will now be checked for weapons such as guns or bombs as they arrive, with several theme parks beginning the inspections on Thursday, December 17. Some operators cited holidays as the reason for the new procedures.
Universal Studios Hollywood, which has used metal detectors at its entrances during special events, has begun a "test" during which it is using them every day. Universal Orlando is using metal-detecting wands.
Disneyland has begun using metal detectors, as well as dogs trained to sniff for explosives. Toy guns are now banned in the park and are no longer being sold there. Costumes and masks are now prohibited for visitors 14 years of age or older. Walt Disney World has begun using metal detectors at its four parks in Orlando, Florida.
SeaWorld Orlando has begun using metal-detecting wands. The company said it is "enhancing security measures at all [its] parks for the busy holiday season."
Legoland in San Diego said it is "implementing additional security measures in preparation for [the] busy holiday season."
sources:
- WOFL-TV (Orlando, Florida)
- Orlando Sentinel
- KUSI-TV (San Diego)
- OC Register
- Metro
- NBC San Diego
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Tuesday December 22 2015, @07:28PM
You'll take safety over freedom, and not only will you do this, but you'll force everyone else to make the same choice. That isn't acceptable.
To you, maybe. So what? What are you going to do about it?
It's often brought up in discussions about terrorism that cars kill more than terrorists, but even cars do not kill that many people in a world with 7 billion people.
Bullshit. In America alone, about 30,000 people are killed every year in cars (and that doesn't include maimings and other injuries). It used to be worse, more like 50k; cars have gotten a lot safer (no thanks to all the Luddites), but that's still a huge number of people and one of the biggest killers of Americans today, probably only eclipsed by heart disease.
I don't refuse, but other people do. I don't see why this means my own freedoms should be reduced.
What should or shouldn't be is irrelevant. I want a unicorn that farts rainbows, but that doesn't mean I'm going to get one. And why should you be free to kill other people on the road anyway due to your own incompetence?
(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Tuesday December 22 2015, @08:39PM
To you, maybe. So what? What are you going to do about it?
I don't know. What am I to do in the face of any oppressor, but to fight back as hard and as often as possible? Sometimes we win against moral thugs and sometimes we don't.
Bullshit. In America alone, about 30,000 people are killed every year in cars (and that doesn't include maimings and other injuries). It used to be worse, more like 50k; cars have gotten a lot safer (no thanks to all the Luddites), but that's still a huge number of people and one of the biggest killers of Americans today, probably only eclipsed by heart disease.
That's nothing in the grand scheme of things. Ultimately, the statistics don't really influence my opinion in this case, but I do think people exaggerate about how bad the situation really is.
And why should you be free to kill other people on the road anyway due to your own incompetence?
Straw man. It's not that I "should" be free to be able to kill people, but that you can't even ensure that these self-driving cars will respect my freedoms or won't be tools of mass surveillance, so you can vanish with your proposals to ban normal cars. How about this: If you oppose putting surveillance cameras in everyone's houses, then you're clearly saying that you should be free to murder people and plan evil terrorist plots within your own home. Accepting that freedom is more important than safety and that you are willing to give up some safety if you can have more freedom doesn't mean you *want* bad things to happen or think they should happen. What a ridiculous way to frame my position, but sadly not totally uncommon among authoritarians.
You want to increase mass surveillance (Let's face it: This will almost certainly be the result.) to achieve some amount of statistical safety, whereas I don't since I care about freedom. Self-driving cars are a good idea, but not if they do not respect our freedoms. If you care so much about saving people, then not only should you advocate that we make cars safer, but you should be trying to protect people's freedoms. The former without the latter is a total disaster.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 22 2015, @08:49PM
Fewer Americans may be dying due to cars than due to guns, for the first time in decades:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/12/gun-violence-car-deaths-charts [motherjones.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 23 2015, @02:34AM
About as likely as the self-driving car utopia.