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I wanna say "Welcome to the security theatre industrial complex", but hey, Orlando shows this isn't an insane scenario (although, to be fair, like most things people are irrationally afraid of, I suspect way more people die each year driving to and from nightclubs that _don't_ get shot up - than have ever died (no matter how horrifically) in a nightclub shooting...)

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Agree with you with on the whole overblown threat thing. But this does raise the spectre of liability for the concert organisers, artists and the pouch company.

Sure, the odds of an individual getting attacked at these events is minuscule. But over time the probability of someone bring a gun into some concert is pretty high. When that happens and it transpires that people weren't able to use their phones to seek help, the class-action lawsuits could come. The obvious solution (to the organisers at least) would be to bring aircraft-level security into concerts (security patdowns, etc.).

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