I don't know how you went from "Going down one flight of stairs" to "Search every furry's bag." but I'll say it's ironic you'd call me paranoid in that case.
It may not stop every case, indeed there may be times of the day where the stairs are abandoned because people are sleeping. However, the point is to increase the odds of acts such as this being witnessed, not stopped entirely. That's not our job, that's the job of security and officers. However having information never hurt anyone.
I think it's more important that whoever did this understands that, just because they did it once doesn't mean they can get away with it again. In fact it just gets harder from here. So for them I'd quit while I'm 'ahead'.
I mean, people fear another 9/11, but I'd argue that using commercial planes in the way terrorists did on that day is now impossible. My evidence is 9/11 itself. The first three planes the passengers were lied to and told they were simply being held for ransom. After being trained by so many American hijack movies they believed their captors. There was a fourth plan however that the passengers were told what the intent of the jackers were, and they acted. I surmise what happened to on that flight would happen to all commercial planes hijacked by terrorists going forward. The passengers would revolt and refuse to be used as pawns in their plans.
Equally, now that people are informed on how an individual can gas a hotel, I think it's important people use that knowledge in order to take preventative actions that, more importantly, don't disrupt their day to day in an absurd fashion. We're still talking about a statistically unlikely event.
Stairwells are typically found not to far from elevators, it would be really easy to simply just go down a flight before taking the elevator. Not for suiters, obviously, but let's 'exercise' a little, and have a community watch as well. I'm sure the con-goers and hotel would appreciate it.
Asking you to go down a flight of stairs isn't asking us to submit to baggage checks and screenings. If anything I'm trying to prevent that, because if a second event like this does happen, and once again no one is caught, then that is what may cause this "TSA" type environment you don't want.
I don't know how you went from "Going down one flight of stairs" to "Search every furry's bag." but I'll say it's ironic you'd call me paranoid in that case.
It may not stop every case, indeed there may be times of the day where the stairs are abandoned because people are sleeping. However, the point is to increase the odds of acts such as this being witnessed, not stopped entirely. That's not our job, that's the job of security and officers. However having information never hurt anyone.
I think it's more important that whoever did this understands that, just because they did it once doesn't mean they can get away with it again. In fact it just gets harder from here. So for them I'd quit while I'm 'ahead'.
I mean, people fear another 9/11, but I'd argue that using commercial planes in the way terrorists did on that day is now impossible. My evidence is 9/11 itself. The first three planes the passengers were lied to and told they were simply being held for ransom. After being trained by so many American hijack movies they believed their captors. There was a fourth plan however that the passengers were told what the intent of the jackers were, and they acted. I surmise what happened to on that flight would happen to all commercial planes hijacked by terrorists going forward. The passengers would revolt and refuse to be used as pawns in their plans.
Equally, now that people are informed on how an individual can gas a hotel, I think it's important people use that knowledge in order to take preventative actions that, more importantly, don't disrupt their day to day in an absurd fashion. We're still talking about a statistically unlikely event.
Stairwells are typically found not to far from elevators, it would be really easy to simply just go down a flight before taking the elevator. Not for suiters, obviously, but let's 'exercise' a little, and have a community watch as well. I'm sure the con-goers and hotel would appreciate it.
Asking you to go down a flight of stairs isn't asking us to submit to baggage checks and screenings. If anything I'm trying to prevent that, because if a second event like this does happen, and once again no one is caught, then that is what may cause this "TSA" type environment you don't want.