By invoking the NAZIs you automatically lost the debate.
However, look at the simplest explanation before looking at conspiracies....
Among the simplest of explanations are: A) the former Coast Guard admiral that headed TSA was an idiot and B) The politics of armed pilots got in the way of a real partial solution to aircraft security.
"By invoking the NAZIs you automatically lost the debate."
Only with those to whom the experience in Germany does not serve as a warning or to those who use the phrase "Why THAT could never happen here" to rationalize their ignorance and apathy in the never-ending struggle to preserve a 250 year old experiment in human freedom that COULD fail if folks fail to guard their liberty.
"In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in men but bind them down from mischief with the chains of the Constitution." Thomas Jefferson
"The Constitution is just a goddamned piece of paper."
(Reliably reported recent remark by George W. Bush)