Originally Posted by chartreuse
Perhaps I'm alone in agreeing with this but it seems to me that the chap's right. The obvious argument is the risk of bad guys using people in the exempt from screening catagory as mules. But do you even need to go that far when we get congressmen turning up with loaded firearms they forgot they had?
I agree as well. There is definitely a big danger of forgetting or "forgetting" prohibited items, or perhaps not even being familiar with the rules. Also, making members of Congress deal with the same system as the rest of us gives them a personal incentive for making sure the system is fair and efficient.
Also, you never know when a flag officer or a federal judge is going to go off their nut. It's not like these guys are all of unimpeachable conduct--witness the impeachment of federal judges, and the occasional dismissal of four-star generals.