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While I would agree with you that one terrible incident shouldn't have necessarily meant that we systematically change our entire airport security protocols, the lapses in airport security not just at one national airport but three (minimum; and we still don't know to this day how many more hijackings were planned but weren't carried out) required us to change how airport security was being conducted.
I understand that people have this distrust in government from privacy issues to efficiency, but until TSA security protocols at each major U.S. airport was splintered with each airport doing their own thing. That may be fine for personal security protections but not when the public at- large needs broad- based security measures at our airports that are consistent. The only way this happens is for such security measures to come from a single, unified source.
Airports are still not all doing the same thing. For example, some airports don't have body scanners and the ones that do don't all use them to the same degree.