Re: Security checks for crews are getting to the riduculous!
surely not
nobody's saying that crews shouldn't go through security screening. The point is, do they really need nail scissors to fight their way to the F/D???
Frankly I find all the groping (yes, groping 
) we are subjected to, especially in the US, ridiculous. I am not hiding a lethal weapon in my hair, as the lady who squidged my chignon for 10 minutes seemed to think when my hair pins set the alarm off at SFO the other day.
If I want to get into the F/D, I only need to ask.
And using your reasonment, isn't the training we are given to neutralise disruptive pax also to be considered dangerous? We could use it against pilots and...
But there's not an end to paranoia down this road.
As Nearly Nigel says, you have to decide who you can trust. And not trusting people that already have full access to all areas of the aircraft seems to me not very logical and a waste of time on both sides. You don't need nail scissors to cause damage when you already sit in the F/D.