I’d find his opinion on the security more compelling had he accomplished any of his goals instead of ending up face first on the ground under a polyester pig pile…
His opinions of security written before the fact don’t appear to match his experiences in the moment. There will always be a point far enough from the secure space that you can access weapons. What matters is whether you ever have a realistic chance of bringing those weapons to bear against the protectees. He appears not to have.
He didn’t even make it to the same floor as the event space. He ran in at a dead sprint, made it maybe a few tens of meters past the first hard checkpoint and got muckled on to.
Major event security has layers and depth that serve different purposes. The measure of efficacy is in the totality and the end result, not the performance of a single layer in isolation. The magnetometers existed to funnel traffic through a controlled perimeter checkpoint and force the discovery of weapons far enough out that it’s safe to do so. The security measures forced him to behave in a way that caused the threat to be detected and stopped successfully.
