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A high school full of kids and adults is NOT a large crowd.
/sarcasm
Not to mention there is a much better chance of doing massive damage and having more casualties on something like a mass transit trolley system in the middle of the afternoon when I have personally seen it full of people. In fact, when the Padres have a game, they fill the trolleys to max capacity, running extras. The people have all sorts of bags with them, because many are going to the game while others are going to work or school or coming home from those places or going shopping. Do we ban the backpacks in these highly crowded instances for hours at a time simply because this is a high population area, with the potential for not only a large amount of casualties on the trolley alone (not even taken into account potential collateral damage if the bomb was detonated in the middle of San Diego) but also the fact that with such crowding, it is highly unlikely that an unattended bag would be noticed as a threat or noticed at all?