Oh I agree, a good under cover officer never lets his cover slip out. I just wondered about the terrorist training for the majority of those that do walk the parks.. I am sure there are those that "watch" the parks from a far.. but the majority of those walking, I would think, are there for shoplifting and intoxicated adults, fights etc... which we all know does happen there. Not spoken about much but happens...There is another threat regarding security, which you may find interesting. Well, some posts are interesting, and some not so much:
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2465936&highlight=security
Hopefully this link worked.
I know for a fact that they have some highly trained security that we may never see, nor should we. They are everywhere that you cannot see. Some people think that because it is not visible to the naked eye, that it does not exist. With regard to security, I am sure that everything Disney does has a reason, it may not be readily apparent to us. Bag checks are a necessary evil, whether we agree that they work or that they don't. I've been to Disney more than 15 times, and I've never stood in the bag check line for more than 5 minutes. Whether they do a good job or not, it's not a big deal to me. I've spent almost 20 years in law enforcement, and trust me, they have people up the wazoo watching us at all times for our movements and behaviors. People get stopped by "security" all the time, they just don't want you to see it. And you usually don't...
For Disney, that is easy to "sell" them new shoes
but on a serious side, don't most of them come with wheels that can pop out. I know at school when we would catch a student, we had them pop their wheels out and put them in their backpacks.. now I am sure, if a parent were to have to do that, once out of site of security, some will just hand the wheels back to their child..
Before you wrote that, I was going to make the comment that off-duty LEOs were probably the biggest offenders of carrying concealed firearms at Disney. Kind of ironic. Makes you kind of wonder about OP, and what the PSO in his user-name stands for?
and I agree with much of what you have said.. will the thought of this happening stop me from going to Disney, no it will not.. the only point I was trying to make is that bag checks are a false sense of security when given the entire picture.. and to me.. my opinion, a waste of time. Which I'm entitled to my opinion...as we all are.
Not taking about robbers or terrorists just you average whacko hot head who could pull a firearm out because someone pushed in front of them. All right everyone might not own a hand gun there but alot do. When I was in Vegas 15 years at a show I was on a table of 8.. yep I asked and they all owned hand guns. On a flight to and from Houston i asked four people ONLY 1 SAID HE DOES NOT OWN ONE Some parts of the country its a law that a house holder own a gun . Lets not talk about the Supreme Crt now allowing folk to buy assault rifles. I can understand a householder owning a gun for protection but not a M 16 or UZI. Must be a nightmare being a cop in the USA.. with the firepower the crooks have!!
Anyway its your country not mine and I love visiting there and love the people.. we Aussies have different views of gun ownership. I have to accept that whilst in WDW some people will be carrying.. I am never rude or anything so I am not worried .. I just thought in this day and age there would be airport style walk thrus at each theme park entrance. Obviously NOT !! (I know there would be convert security)
I have had the full gun debate thing on the skydive forum dropzone.com. We know the USA will never agree with us on gun ownership The NRA has enormus political power any politician that ever dares to introduce gun control laws gets thrown out on their **** or *** as you say.
