Yes, for sure. I know this wasn't the angle you were taking, but: context is important, too. Aviation security is about keeping aviation safe. But it is also (more?) about economic security than physical security.

Consider:
- according to this report General Aviation Provides Robust Contribution to US Economy | NBAA - National Business Aviation Association general aviation contributed $339,000,000,000 to the US economy via 1.3 million jobs.
- according to this "report" Impact | Airlines For America commercial aviation contributed $1,450,000,000,000 to the US economy via ~10 million jobs. Commercial aviation is about 5% of US GDP.

- Other sources say worldwide commercial aviation is estimated at $4 trillion of world GDP, employing approximately 86 million people.

Total US commercial enplanements for 2024 was about 875 million. Final '25 data is not yet available but is estimated to exceed 2024. Of course, there is no way to know the US enplanement numbers for GA, but I feel confident to go out on a limb and posit that it was magnitudes smaller than commercial enplanements.

Just for the US, TSA spending $11 thousand million on theater to help protect $145 thousand million doesn't sound like a bad investment (even as we all know it is spent poorly).

But hey, where else should we be spending our great-grandkids' taxes?