Rolling Stone: In the weeks since a shooter killed 58 people and wounded more than 500 others at Las Vegas' Route 91 Harvest festival, Kevin Lyman, producer of the long-running Warped Tour, has been thinking a lot about security at his outdoor festival. In recent years, he'd already added police dogs and more barricades, and started contacting Homeland Security for help before shows. "It's at the forefront of my mind: How am I going to keep the kids safe?" he says. "My job hasn't been fun for a while. I used to worry about weather patterns and lightning storms. There's no way that anyone could've thought something like this would've happened."
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While I'm happy that festivals are planning to up their security, I can't help but feel sickened by the fact that these security measures really won't be able to help all that much. It's been proven time and time again that even with "maximum security", such as the security we see at airports, people are always able to cause destruction if they want to. The reality of the situation is that security is often more psychological than anything else. Adding increased security may deter terrorist attacks in the sense that they scare people away from doing them, however, if someone legitimately seeks to harm a large group of people, they will likely find a way to do it no matter what security measures are present. The reality here is that guns are the problem, not the amount of security we have present at large outdoor gatherings. One day I hope we will address the heart of the problem rather than wait around because a bunch of white men have some fantasy that they need their guns because they might be able to be portrayed as a hero for stopping a mass shooting.
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