This Editorial was found in the Austin American Statesman is about adding metal detectors at the Texas Capitol. In a 5-1 vote, reason prevailed over Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday when the State Preservation Board, chaired by the governor, decided it is time to utilize metal detectors and X-ray equipment at the entrances to the Texas Capitol.
I believe that Rick Perry has the right indeed to amend the plan for deletion of this equipment. Just because one person in a million made the decision to act crazy is not reason enough to begin adding metal detectors. If we start adding metal detectors due to this one incident then what will be next. Will we have to start adding metal detectors at food stores, churches, malls etc? There will always be mentally ill people that will want to pull out a gun a perhaps be famous for an instance but I don’t believe that the shooting that happened at the Texas Capitol in January is motive enough to make the other hundreds of thousands of visitors uncomfortable.
I have visited the Capitol with family and friends more than one occasion and so far it has been a pleasant and fun experience my son loves it but I assure you that once they install metal detectors and x-ray equipment I will not have my son be treated as a suspicious individual, I will not go back. I left my Job as a Flight attendant because of all these not only uncomfortable but even awkward moments and in particular for a woman. Yes, indeed we need to protect our people, our building but as Rick Perry commented there are other ways to protect the public without metal detectors and I am all for it.
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I agree that it is very sad that society has come to this, why we would have to step down and start adding all these things to be safe. I wish we really would all get along. I do believe that adding the metal detesters and x-ray will take away from the peacefulness of the capital. I do believe that most people will stop going as much because of this being added, I like the fact I can go somewhere and not feel like I am being attached in some way because of something someone else did wrong to mess up this country.
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