I am troubled by overstatements and overreaction just as I concur with the basic proposition raised by the OP. The problem comes in the headline rather than the content. People to often react to the headlines. In the current case, as in the 1950's US infatuation with what is now called McCarthyism, the US proves willing to discard freedom in favor of order. The words of Benjamin Franklin come to mind.

Sadly the US seems to have come to the point that a majority of the people are willing to allow anybody to carry a concealed weapon or a machine gun just as most seem willing to accept these obnoxious searches. The US seems incapable of generating a consensus for common sense. A very sad state of affairs.