Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25316824-20160917214234/@comment-25936766-20160917221229

Nikoli the rebel wrote:

1-How does Mercury get past metal detectors and body scanners?

2-So why metal detectors and body scanners were absent from screening civilians is a plot hole. Anybody could have put a bomb in their underwear and blown up many civilians in the stands.

3-That being said I also am considering the implications of gun control in remnant and may post my thoughts on how it might work inbetween now and Volume 4. 1-Emerald's pretty much always with him. She could use her Semblance to make people not hear the metal detector, or see something else in the scanner. Or more simply, make his legs look normal, making people think it's just the detector malfunctioning a bit.

2-They live in a time of peace; that is, no one really wants war and such. Except for the White Fang. Considering how all kingdoms are surrounded by creatures attracted to negative emotions like fear, no one would be truly willing to go suicide-bombing at the Festival, or at least no one expects anyone to.

At the same time, the government(s) don't have the time or resources to, say, do a background check of every single person in the stadium and see if they have any connection to the WF or something.

Overall, they felt so safe (and for the most part have been safe for decades), that no one expected anything bad to happen. The worst scenario for the average joe would've been the WF doing something, and: 1) There were soldiers and AKs for security, and 2) There's no way to know who among the audience is and isn't a WF member.

3-The problem with such thing is, Gun Control only truly works on paper. In practice, it depends heavily on every Joe with a gun not doing anything with it except self-defense, which there's no way to guarantee, and thus the whole idea is a massive case of praying for miracles.

Combined with their feelings of relative safety, the most I see is Remnant not letting every citizen have a gun, nor that they would need to. That said, Hunters seem to be an exception.