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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

There's a pretty big difference between metal detectors and having someone actively stick their hands inside your coat / up and down your body, though. The biggest concern is the invasion of personal space, surely. Some people are fine with that, and that's great... but some people are really not OK with strangers having the right to pat them up and down.

Fair enough, though if you get pulled over at the airport if you want to proceed you have to put it, and if you don't then its bye bye your holidays, the uptake at airports is 100 per cent, is it so much to ask to stop some kid being murdered? it would take a few seconds out of your day.