Courthouses having screening I can understand but the State of PA started with making a fortress out of the capitol building after 9/11 (and have never gone back down in threat level since) and is increasing with adding security guards in buildings that don’t need them/have never needed/should never need them. Eventually they’ll have security guards/police every where.

Add to that the way we’re teaching our children to have no expectation of privacy through the screening process at some schools etc and it’s not a pretty picture for the future.

I say let everyone carry knives/guns whatever they want barring explosives/extreme incendiaries etc (which dogs can sniff for better than we can scan for them) and let the next hijackers get torn to bits/shot to death etc. 30 something years ago when the 1st US plane was hijacked and on national TV etc if the guy had been shot dead much of what we’re dealing with would not have come to fruition. Instead we let the hijacker get their way and taught the word that if they treat the US badly we’ll reward them and that eventually leads to 9/11 and the post 9/11 degradation/humiliation of everyone in the name of *safety*.

/grumble