If it's good enough for courthouses and the White House...

I share the opinion of this TPM reader:

I'm a lawyer. I go through security checkpoints all the time. Went through one at the local criminal courthouse this morning. They x-rayed my stuff, sent me through a metal detector, and then had me come back through it to pick up my stuff when they were done looking at it on the monitor. Done. 30 seconds. The lawyer's line at the courthouse is ever-so-slightly less rigid than the general public line (if it's obviously my belt buckle setting off the detector, they've never made me take it off; they've learned to accept that lawyers often keep calendars on their smartphones so we don't have to check them before entering the building, though they check to make sure the ringer is off), but even the general public line is pretty much what we were used to pre-9/11. X ray machine. Metal detector. Wand if they can't quickly figure out what's setting off the detector. Pat downs only if you're still setting off the detector and nothing's visible. 45 seconds or a minute, tops. And you know, a rather substantial percentage of the people who go through the line to get into a criminal courthouse are people out on bail, some of whom are actual dangerous criminals. And a lot of the others are people who are witnesses to crimes whose presence is not exactly welcomed by the criminal element. Honestly, this new TSA genital-feeling stuff goes further than I've ever had to go through to even go into a *prison.*

I've been to the White House and within five feet of the president without anyone sticking their hands in my waistband.