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Imagine this scenario for a bit: You're at a bank, and someone walks in, wielding a sword, gun, axe, or any other matter of established weapon (not a chair leg). The implications are far from good, unless of course, it happens in a video game. Obviously, the hero has just come to withdraw money from his account so he can purchase even bigger swords to walk into banks with.
In short, [[Guns
In [[Real Life]], however, throughout most of the civilized world, life is ''just'' peaceful enough that this is typically a bad idea. With an individual who normally is expected to carry a weapon (such as a knight, policeman, or soldier), if they have a means to store a weapon that can be easily drawn, this trope then is restricted to them actually ''carrying it'' (For example, a policeman who has a gun in his hand everywhere he goes, leaving his holster empty.)
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{{examples|Why do these examples have their weapons out?}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
* One rather hilarious subversion comes in ''[[Lupin III]]''. Daisuke Jigen almost always has a weapon handy, but as bad luck would have it, violence breaks out during a wedding, one of the rare times he is not. He instinctively goes to for his holster, and is noticeably embarrassed to realize it isn't there.
* Premise of ''[[Tetragrammaton Labyrinth]]'' has the main characters fighting evil. ''They live in a church''. Some fight scenes take place in churches.▼
== [[Film]] ==
* Subverted In the ''K-9'' sequel ''K-9-11'', James Belushi's character gets into a discussion with his boss about the kind of sidearms he carries while on the job, at the same time brandishing each handgun in succession. His boss urges him to put them away several times.
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** When Liz visits a bad neighborhood nicknamed "Little Chechnya", she asks if she just saw a man walking down the street holding a gun. She is told, "Yeah, but don't worry, he's not a cop."
* On ''[[Garth Marenghi's Darkplace]]'', most of the characters, who work in a hospital, seem to have guns at all times. This comes in handy when they're attacked by [[Animate Inanimate Object]]s, undead warlocks, and Scotsmen.
▲== [[Manga]] ==
▲* Premise of ''[[Tetragrammaton Labyrinth]]'' has the main characters fighting evil. ''They live in a church''. Some fight scenes take place in churches.
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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* [[Dungeons & Dragons]] traditionally doesn't even bother. In most settings you'll see palaces and places with [[Truce Zone]] rules having "check on entry" rule, but that's all. It doesn't help that few authors remember that there are differences between poleaxes and sidearms.
** [[Forgotten Realms]] has many political entities, from minor city-states to Cormyr, that exercise "peace bonding" tradition: carrying sidearms is allowed almost anywhere, but one must check each weapon on entry and have it tied to stay in the sheath (or wherever it's carried) with a ribbon using an elaborate knot. This doesn't hinder self-defense much, but gives the hot-headed a chance to remember where they are, or at least helps the local enforcement to see who had steel out and who didn't later (accurately tying a non-trivial knot is not easy to do in a rush and/or on the run).
*** Of course, ''practically'' both peace-bonding and "check at the door" rule are mostly about demonstration of peaceful intent and preventing violent escalations, so "[https://web.archive.org/web/20190927211402/http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3684&whichpage=72#107621 everyone hands over their largest, most awkward weapon, and openly goes on carrying other weaponry]". Full "no steel" policy only appears in few small high-security areas or as a temporary measure if there were too many brawls gone too bad. In part because there's magic anyway, in part because if things like belt knives count, [[Everyone Is Armed]], so it's too much of bother for everybody involved.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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