I'm with Avman. Although I'm an American, I can't say that visits back to the home country have been exactly enjoyable as far as airport checking is concerned.
It is far more rigorous to some extent in the U.S., but the key question is the reason why? It seems that the personnel on duty are the same old ignorant people making minimum wage, but instead of working for some kind of private security outfit, they now work for the federal government. Intelligence quotient about 10.
Were they not hired from that old private security firm en masse?
If you take British, German, Dutch, French, and other continental European security, they may not be as "in your face" as the Americans are, but I believe they are much more professional and astute than their American counterparts.
At least you are treated as a human being and not as trash. Yes, if they find something, you'll end up arrested, but you won't have to go through the demeaning searches as Danny's 80-year old man.