I only care about public safety, and this is by nature an unsafe event.

The old 'red herring'.

Life is by nature an unsafe event. The only sure way to make it safe is to end it. Is that what you and others who ONLY care about public safety, intend to do?

Public safety is an important aspect of any form of gathering but most of us ALSO care about aspects other than public safety which are also important and should not be risked in the name of the often meaningless mantra that public safety has now become.

This perfectly laudable aim is too often confused with security issues, mainly as it tends to be security employees who treat these aspects equally and often overlook that these are simply incidental to the gathering and are not the sole object.

It is insulting when assumptions are made that responsible people who simply ask for their rights and for commons sense to prevail at such gatherings are seen as having a wish to intentionally make the public unsafe and have can have no regard at all to the public's safety.

But far too many of our rights and freedoms are now being threatened by measures which are stated to be for the public's safety and sucurity but which only affect and place limitations on responsible members of the public and which have no affect at all upon those who would intentionally transgress.