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Originally Posted by Vengence Opus  private security guards are licensed, bonded, carry plastic flashlights, maybe a small sidearm, and are required to call the cops if anything happens.
mercenaries carry full auto assault rifles, are usually former spec-ops, and, as we've seen in Iraq, are completely unaccountable for anything (including wholesale slaughter of civilians).
big difference between a guy in a polyester suit with a plastic badge and a guy fully kitted for war. |
To an unarmed civilian a sidearm is just as bad as a machine gun, really.
If the government is hiring temporary extra baggage handlers
and those guys waving the radar wands equipped with radios to call the real police.
Thats cool.
They shouldn't be hiring armed anyone that isn't part of a police force, an official armed government agency (like the FBI), or the military.