Airport Level Weapons Screening at High Risk Locations

Seven years ago in 2009 a security guard at the entrance of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum gave his life stopping an armed European-American anti-semite from attempting a mass shooting.

When my wife Cheryl Robinson and I visited the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center we first passed through airport level weapons screening before entering.

I am not optimistic that we will soon find the political will to implement the gun regulations that the SCOTUS has repeatedly ruled to be Constitutional under the 2nd Amendment.

But we must do something now.

I very reluctantly suggest that we may need to use airport level weapons screenings at institutions assessed to be at risk for mass shootings. 

My reluctance is that will result in our schools, places of worships, museums, movie theatres, and other places at risk of mass shooting having secure perimeters with fences and barbed wire with one entrance with metal detectors, x-ray for our bags, and armed guards. Our nation will start to resemble a police state.

The reality is that may be one of the few effective ways to keep us safer in our nation that is suffering from an epidemic of gun sickness.

That is what kept safe the staff and visitors at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

That will also make people aware of the price we are paying to give a a handful of people a minimum of restrictions to purchase firearms. Perhaps that price will raise consciousness so we find our political will to deal with a problem that has resulted in over 400,000 non-terrorist deaths since 9/11.

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