Exactly. Now if we could only convince the federal government of that. They are making the situation much more dangerous by disarming law-abiding passengers. Perhaps even worse is that they are killing off the airlines.
What I propose is a free market in security. Let airline A run it's own security. Let them perform whatever screening and profiling they want, and let law-abiding passengers carry. Allow them to put video cameras anywhere they want in the cabin.
Airline B can disarm everybody and let the TSA drones perform all security.
Then let the flying public decide on which airline they want to fly.
"I, Pencil". Let the free market decide. Economic Darwinism. I would absolutely REFUSE to fly on an airline that restricted my Right to carry, if there were an airline available that welcomed my addition to their security. Heck, I'd even buy my own frangible "airplane safe" rounds should they so require it.
Have you wrote Senator Dole in order to propose your idea? What about contacting pundits like Water Williams, Thomas Sowell, or Bruce Bartlett? Believe it or not those three do read their e-mail and sometimes even respond either directly or in what they write in their columns. This would be a very worthy and viable subject to be debated in a larger, national forum.