I'd pat these people down too! And when the bad guys get hungry, when they can't sleep, or go to the bathroom, when they start cussing, and fighting among themselves, you'd be glad they weren't armed.
Anybody listening to Drudge?
imagine if when all the ferries came into lower manhattan on 9-11, that the people who had to evacuate manhattan had to line up and be frisked before boarding.
It'd be faster, and safer, if they just handed everyone a baseball bat.