Are the screeners and rent-a-cops gonna feel the least bit foolish sending me back to my car when I (routinely) forget that this is in my pocket?

It's just disproportionate.  Somebody with concealed lethal weapon strolls right in.  I take a hike.

I often look for a planter outside the entrance where I can stash this little instrument of mayhem. Once a courthouse deputy spotted me doing it and gave me the stink eye, said that was out-of-bounds.