Everyone Is Armed/Playing With

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Straight: Weapons are widely owned and play a substantial part in culture.
Exaggerated: Toddlers walk around toting tommy guns like Film Noir mob enforcers.
Downplayed: Many people own arms, but they are only displayed on special occasions like military maneuvers or pageants involving the display of weapons.
Justified: It is a dangerous neighborhood with nasty people around.
Inverted: Only elites and their servants are allowed arms.
Subverted: Everyone is theoretically allowed to be armed but the regulations for ownership are deliberately made to esoteric for anyone to master without a lawyer.
Double Subverted: So the proles simply learn to fight with farm implements.
Parodied: Everyone has a squirt gun. And uses it to shocking effect!
Zig Zagged: Personal weapons are allowed especially those for ceremony or sport or obvious self-defense/survival needs. Really hefty firepower gets more complicated and the need for it sometimes has to be proved.
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Enforced: ???
Lampshaded: This is the the West don't you know. Everyone owns a weapon. And they have a shootout at every high noon. Yessir there's gonna be another one in just an hour. Let's pack a lunch and go to the plaza and watch.
Invoked: ???
Exploited: Your majesty, why don't you go conquer Switzerland. Those folk don't know how to do anything but make chocolate!
Defied: ???
Discussed: ???
Conversed: ???
Deconstructed: Society is beset by lawlessness and feuding.
Reconstructed: But when an invader comes all unite to throw him out.
Played For Laughs:
Played For Drama: To be a citizen Bob has to demonstrate that he understands how to use weapons and when to use them. This requires a rigorous Rite of Passage.
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