That may be so, Doors, but I transit UK and German airports monthly, and the security procedures in place are as sadly lacking as they are in the US. If you are in possession of a different story, if you are not threatened by the Bedouin assassins, kindly illuminate.
I belabor a well-worn point when I say that the monstrous rape of that September has made us all more than a little edgy over here, and will continue to loom grim and implausibly frightening in the American psyche for the foreseeable future.
The overkill currently in force is a predictable and very human reaction to trauma of that magnitude. Despite some corrosive and brazenly ill-conceived posts on this forum, we remain your friends in spirit and in deed, as we hope you do. Kindly bear with us, at some point, the Yanks eventually get around to sorting it out.