Robb Allen makes a point about “security theater”:

The problem isn’t that weapons can be easily brought in and out of theme parks (they are all the time), the problem lies with people accepting the stick in the backpack as ‘security’. People think that’s all it takes to protect them and their own and that kind of mindset spills over into the rest of our lives. We continue to accept these intrusions into our privacy that are nothing more than an illusion. Again, remind me how using a dowel to poke through a diaper bag prevents Thomas the Thug from carrying a 9 into the park?

I say that these types of false securities harm us more than help by lulling the populace into a false sense of safety. Because people allow themselves to be fooled that they’re “safe”, they’re less likely to look after themselves. Then, when all hell breaks loose, they look for someone else to blame then cry for more illusions from the government so that they don’t have to face reality.

So true. But this is how we are in America these days… we want someone else to worry about all the “hard things” because we have more important things to concern ourselves with, like what’s on TV tonight, who to vote for on American Idol, Michael Jackson, getting my “Obama money” (yeah, but where does it come from?), someone else paying for my care and well-being, and so on.

*sigh*

I need to stop else I’m going to get all ranty.