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by Dylan16807 1315 days ago
So why specify guns?

Especially when they're so rarely used in situations like this.

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Used? Sure. You don’t need to use it when everyone knows what will happen. The presence is enough 99% of the time.

Or are you saying cops don’t have real pistols in their holsters, and agents just pretend to be armed on those raids?

A white collar raid doesn't need to bring guns.
And yet they usually do.
because most governments quit using swords long enough ago that guns are now the symbol representing violent force.
It’s a widely-used aphorism for governments’ monopoly on violence, which, as others have pointed out, is ultimately how governments get people to do things they otherwise wouldn’t do.