It seems a lot of lives have been saved. People travel on airlines every day of every week of every month of every year. Every time that plane safely lands on the runway more lives are saved. Relinquish our own safety to others? By submitting to a search? Does getting patted down somehow render you flaccid... err.. excuse me... helpless? Is the wand they use to detect metal somehow magic and causes you to freeze? Did they shout Immobulus and fly around on brooms?
This has to be the most idiotic "controversy" I've ever witnessed. I would rather have a man fondle my genitals than find out later, because we abolished the TSA, a man carried a bomb onto the plane and my life was flashing before my eyes. Did 9/11 teach you nothing? I'd rather be inconvenienced than dead.