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<blockquote data-quote="zubenelgenubi" data-source="post: 3379444" data-attributes="member: 63706">Thought you were talking about professional sports for some reason. Though our college sporting events around here do have police presence. But having armed personnel seemingly would be a deterrent, especially if it&#039;s known that personnel are armed, but not which ones. Ambushes/surprise attacks work really well, that&#039;s why the military uses them. That&#039;s not really an argument for disarming.So, if sports complexes haven&#039;t had the same mass shooting issues, what do you think makes them different from schools? I&#039;d say the fact that there aren&#039;t as many of them, and they host events less regularly than kids attend school, so it could be easier to anticipate an attack. Also, gun free zone or not, you would probably be more likely to run into a parent who ignores the gun free zone at a sports complex. A mass shooter making plans would likely take those things into consideration.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="zubenelgenubi, post: 3379444, member: 63706"] Thought you were talking about professional sports for some reason. Though our college sporting events around here do have police presence. But having armed personnel seemingly would be a deterrent, especially if it's known that personnel are armed, but not which ones. Ambushes/surprise attacks work really well, that's why the military uses them. That's not really an argument for disarming. So, if sports complexes haven't had the same mass shooting issues, what do you think makes them different from schools? I'd say the fact that there aren't as many of them, and they host events less regularly than kids attend school, so it could be easier to anticipate an attack. Also, gun free zone or not, you would probably be more likely to run into a parent who ignores the gun free zone at a sports complex. A mass shooter making plans would likely take those things into consideration. [/QUOTE]

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