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* This happening repeatedly is why Hamas switched to bombing instead of using guns in Israel.
* Being armed and trained for militia service is part of the duty of citizenship. In fact this inspired Heinlein in writing [[Recycled In Space|Starship Troopers]].
**It is the same in Switzerland which was a major inspiration for ''[[Starship Troopers]]''. Not coincidentally it was also an inspiration for a number of aspects of the IDF
* Every few years another incident makes the news in which crooks attempt armed robbery in places where multiple off-duty police officers happen to be.
** One notable example involves the robber robbing a bank branch in New York, [[Too Dumb to Live|directly under the FBI's office]], on payday.
** There have been notable examples of inept criminals trying to rob bars or restaurants frequented by off-duty police (which, in many places, tend to be frequented by few others). There has also been at least one example of rather cleverer criminals staging an apparently stupid attempt to rob such, then a second group arriving after the obvious happens, posing as another, unfamiliar group of police. The second group of criminals then attempt to trick the real police in the establishment out of their guns to conduct a real robbery.
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