The TSA is an almost completely worthless organization which doesn’t make anyone any safer. It has been shown over and over again that anyone who has evil intent can outsmart these buffoons 99% of the time.
I fly out of a small airport in Texas and, until I finally got PreCheck, I got patted down every SINGLE time I flew, despite the fact that the number of people in my demographic who have ever hijacked a plane or carried out a terror attack is, as far as I know, zero.
I had a flight a few years ago. Take off the shoes, take off the jacket, go through the scanner, get patted down, the whole annoying mess.
So, I finally got through security and sit down a few feet away to put my boots back on. I glanced down at my purse, sitting beside me, and was totally shocked. My purse had gone through the x-ray scanner; sitting right on top was my key chain, with my PINK pepper spray canister! They patted me down, but completely missed the pepper spray sitting right there. I had forgotten to take the pepper spray off my key chain.
I got myself together and strolled down to the ladies’ room where I put that thing in the trash.