TSA Relaxing Screening Procedures?

Annie Jacobsen's latest entry in her "Terror in the Skies" series is even more hair raising than usual and includes an anecdote of a passenger being caught with a 4" drywall saw in his shoe, which was presumably confiscated, who was allowed to board his flight.

If you feel inspired, write the TSA here:
TellTSA@dhs.gov
tsa-contactcenter@dhs.gov

My letter to the TSA follows:

I have recently learned that TSA is considering relaxing the list of items that will be allowed onto airplanes. I fly regularly and screening can be a hassle on the traveler, however being dead is a much bigger problem than 15 minutes in line and a few questions.

While I understand that it may be more difficult for an attacker to gain entrance to the cockpit, I find it untenable that the lives of those passengers and crew outside the armored cockpit would now be put at risk in order to lessen the hassle of screening. My understanding is that all of the screening would still take place, just as it does now, but that a larger list of items would be allowed through the checkpoint and onto the plane. The screening will still happen. The lines will still happen. The searches will still happen.

The only person who will be inconvenienced a little less is the person that wants to board a plane with an ice pick, bow and arrow, or a throwing star. What percentage of the traveling public would that be exactly and why are we worried about making their travel experience more bearable?

If anything, I would urge added vigilance, not less. Do a better job screen for explosives AND remove potential weapons that can harm not only pilots but the crew and passengers in the back of the plane as well. Anything less and TSA is failing the public it was established to protect.