The wife of a colleage and friend of mine flew from SeaTac to Maine with a six inch knife in her purse. She has the knife for self defense but forgot to remove it prior to flying.
Within a few years the TSA will likely become unionized, thanks to the democrats, and probably no more effective than the minimum wage earners and illegal aliens that were staffing the checkpoints prior to 9/11. However, grandmas and children as well as the rest of us will have to remove our shoes and anything else they dream up.
Hey- but for $99, you can now by a speedpass for airports.... you get to bypass most security and head on to your plane (no more waiting in long lines...