After reading the article, "Police suggest metal detectors in bars," March 16, I don't understand how the State College Police Department thinks it would be very easy to implement metal detectors in bars.

Almost every bar has lines out their doors on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, and I'm sure the last thing they want is to make their patrons wait even longer to get in. Workers at the door are trying to collect cover charges and shuffle patrons in as quickly as possible, and if every person who walks through with a metal belt buckle, watch, chain, etc., has to be stopped and searched, the line would never move. Granted there are detectors that have tolerances on them for certain metals, but with all the different types of watches, buckles, clips, jewelry and even knives, there would still be no definite way to tell if an individual coming in had a knife or other weapon on them.

I regret that Penn State student Michael Donahue was the victim of a stabbing incident, but metal detectors will only make everyone outside the bars angrier because they will have to wait longer to get in. It's my understanding that most people don't stab people at bars, so I think situations like this should be dealt with only when they occur.