I always thought security was a joke at New York airports, and in U.S. airports to begin with. You can go through any European or Middle Eastern airport and things are a lot tougher. ↗
The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out there and matters to people are slim. ↗
The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it. ↗