Talk about overreaction....
I agree about the theaters, and so many other places overreacting to terrorism.
A student in one of my classes, related this story that happened to her, yesterday...
She is taking her mother to work at a local, state-run, mental hospital.
She is simply going to drop her mother off at the door. She drives past the security checkpoint (rent-a-cop-in-a-box).
When she stops, a security guard comes out the front door, demanding that she return to the security guard post and receive a pass (100 feet from the front entrance).
The security guard refuses to let her mother (who works there, and the security guard knows her by name!) out of the vehicle, until the vehicle returns to the gate and gets a pass!
They return and get the pass.
When asked why they were made to return for a pass, after it was obvious that this was only an identified-employee being dropped off, they were told, "We knew you, but we didn't know about the driver, they might have been a terrorist!"
This is even more hilarious when you realize that the student, who was driving, is white, 19 yrs old, robust, as meek acting, sounding, behaving as a kitten, female, who had been identified as "My daughter!" by the known employee....