History Main / EveryoneIsArmed

* Speaking of, this is why you never ''ever '''ever''''' rob a gun store. It's outright guaranteed that every employee in that store is packing heat, that they have something pretty heavy under the counter waiting for wannabe crooks, and that the employees are experienced and seasoned firearm handlers who are pretty quick on the draw, aren't intimidated by guns, and are probably a hell of a lot better of a shot than you are. And that's the ''employees''; it's safe to assume at least a ''couple'' of the customers have and make full use of the local equivalent to Concealed Carry. Every so often you hear about someone who ended up as nothing more than a perforated puddle on the floor after attempting to rob a gun store.

* UsefulNotes/{{Pakistan}} has both a constitutional guarantee of the right to keep and bear arms and a strong social tradition of firearms ownership, especially in rural and tribal areas. Laws vary by province but can include even the possession of heavy military ordinance. See [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Pakistan Gun Politics in Pakistan.]]

* According to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Distributed Defense Distributed's]] founder Cody Wilson, the decision to focus their organization's efforts on producing firearms was to deliberately choose an object that would exemplify the potential of 3D-printing to bypass authoritarian efforts to limit access to certain objects, doing for physical objects what the printing press did for books and by extension for freedom of thought and speech

* ''ComicBook/BuckGodotZapGunForHire'' has the planet New Hong Kong, where this is the norm thanks to the planet's only law being "There Shall Be No Law". Even [=EMTs=] whose job it is to '''help''' people who've been shot go armed.

* This page of a Creator/RalphHayesJr webcomic highlights [[http://www.rhjunior.com/the-fellowship-of-heroes-0046/ the brief career of a would-be supervillain.]]

* ''VideoGame/JetForceGemini'': The Big Bug Fun Club, located in Ichor's second level, has a large group of Drones enjoying the music (which you can also select by talking to Fishface, who serves as the MC). Just make sure not to shoot at any times or interrupt their dances by moving too close to them, or else they'll throw grenades at you (the bigger bug will also shoot you if you take the Tribals, though doing this will be necessary to proceed in the game). And all of this assumes that you enter the building [[DressingAsTheEnemy while transformed into a Drone]], because getting there in human form is a fatal mistake. The trope is justified, because the nightclub is located inside a widespread military base.

* Pretty much the norm in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', where everyone from the local alchemist to the builder down the street probably has an axe or a dagger on them at all times. And given that there's a good chance that either the Civil War, roaming bandits, errant wildlife or even ''[[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]]'' could descend upon your village at ''any'' time, it's just [[HadToBeSharp logical to do so]].
** Add to the fact that the native population are the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Nords]], it's not surprising that in addition to being armed, everyone happens to be wearing TwentyFourHourArmor as well.

* In ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'', this is true for everyone in the Confederation, which takes the right to keep and bear arms ''very'' seriously. [[DoubleStandard Except the women]], since [[NoGuyWantsAnAmazon guns are unfeminine]], so most families discourage them from going about armed.

* ''Webcomic/MagickChicks'': Students of Artemis Academy are divided to "Combat Cadets", "Ninja Club", "Magical Cadets" and "Esper Collective". So when [[spoiler:Skye after going [[EvilIsSexy darker and hotter]]]] crashed a party with a pack of wolves, in the first page a girl screams "Wolves!", everyone backs off and Callista is the only one holding a bow. Once this escalates, though, on the next page they all hold weapons -- except Sandi (the only one shaken by this), Cerise (who conjured a tiny lightning ball) and Espers (in their own stances).

* In early human history the men of most families were expected to be proficient with arms, first for hunting then later for defense against beasts and each other. Some cultures also let women carry defensive weapons like knives to protect themselves and their children and some places even considered it acceptable to arm ''the children''. After standing armies became common, bladed implements like knives and machetes were still widely carried as all-purpose tools until modern regulation of lethal and potentially lethal weapons. People in several Asian and African countries as well as more remote areas of developed nations still wear their knives openly in the 21st century.

* Back during the 1920's in UsefulNotes/{{Texas}}, bank robberies were alarmingly common, often 3 to 4 heists in a day. In response, the Texas Bankers Association offered up a $5000 (about $68,000 today) reward to anyone who shot a robber during the crime. So whenever a bank got hit the robbers didn't just have to contend with local law enforcement, but also dozens of trigger-happy residents eager to collect on the reward money.

* ''Series/TheFall'': Unlike other British territorial police forces, all members of the PSNI routinely carry firearms due to the higher levels of gun violence present in Northern Ireland. Even Gibson is issued with one, despite only being a visiting representative from the Met, who don't carry guns (aside from their armed response team). The criminals also far more often have guns, with a police officer even being killed by one in the pilot (hence the police being armed). Many are former terrorists who've taken up regular crime after the Troubles ended, so civilians and police are far more likely to get shot in the province than the British mainland.

** Due to a glitch in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'', attacking certain pedestrians and then standing on a car would result in the pedestrian running confused into the vehicle for a few seconds before pulling out a pistol and attacking you with it.
** A cheat code for ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' causes all pedestrians to be armed, carrying everything from handguns to {{R|olePlayingGame}}PGs.

* Speaking of, this is why you never ''ever '''ever''''' rob a gun store. It's outright guaranteed that every employee in that store is packing heat, that they have something pretty heavy under the counter waiting for wannabe crooks, and that the employees are experienced and seasoned firearm handlers who are pretty quick on the draw, aren't intimidated by guns, and are probably a hell of a lot better of a shot than you are. Every so often you hear about someone who ended up as nothing more than a perforated puddle on the floor after attempting to rob a gun store.

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*** As of April 2023, twenty-six U.S. states[[note]]Alabama, UsefulNotes/{{Alaska}}, UsefulNotes/{{Arizona}}, Arkansas, Florida, UsefulNotes/{{Georgia|USA}}, UsefulNotes/{{Idaho}}, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, UsefulNotes/{{Maine}}, Mississippi, Missouri, UsefulNotes/{{Montana}}, New Hampshire, UsefulNotes/NorthDakota, UsefulNotes/{{Ohio}}, UsefulNotes/{{Oklahoma|USA}}, UsefulNotes/SouthDakota, UsefulNotes/{{Tennessee}}, UsefulNotes/{{Texas}}, UsefulNotes/{{Utah}}, UsefulNotes/{{Vermont}}, West Virginia, and UsefulNotes/{{Wyoming}}[[/note]] are "constitutional carry" jurisdictions, in which no permit or license is required to carry a concealed weapon (in some cases only for residents, in most cases for anybody legally entitled to possess a weapon). Most of these states (Vermont being the exception) still issue permits for "reciprocity" purposes (which may be required for their residents to carry in states that require permits but will recognize out-of-state permits.)

Virtually a given in all ZombieApocalypse scenarios, [[TheWestern Westerns]], and [[SlidingScaleOfLibertarianismAndAuthoritarianism libertarian]] utopias, and frequently the case with {{Crapsack World}}s, WorldOfBadass, {{Wretched Hive}}s and people who are CrazyPrepared or HADToBeSharp. When someone makes the mistake of threatening these people not knowing how well-prepared for trouble they are, it's a case of MuggingTheMonster (which frequently leads to MoreDakka and MultipleGunshotDeath). When there are two separate rival or enemy groups, it's the setup for a MexicanStandoff, which may lead to a BlastOut. This trope sometimes averts GunsInChurch, when ordinarily it would be spectacularly inappropriate to carry weapons.

* One of the countries Kino visits in ''LightNovel/KinosJourney'' has practically every citizen visibly armed. This is because murder is legalized in this country, so citizens are armed as to both act as a form a deterrence to each other, as well as eliminate potential threats to their community, as it is shown that they swiftly execute a newcomer who intended to take advantage of the legalized murder to go on a killing spree.

A variation of this is when the hero and the villain meet in a supposedly neutral public place, only to have it turn out that all the bystanders are really the villain's {{Mooks}}.

Virtually a given in all ZombieApocalypse scenarios, [[TheWestern Westerns]], and [[SlidingScaleOfLibertarianismAndAuthoritarianism libertarian]] utopias, and frequently the case with {{Crapsack World}}s, WorldOfBadass, {{Wretched Hive}}s and people who HADToBeSharp. When someone makes the mistake of threatening these people not knowing how well-prepared for trouble they are, it's a case of MuggingTheMonster (which frequently leads to MoreDakka and MultipleGunshotDeath). When there are two separate rival or enemy groups, it's the setup for a MexicanStandoff, which may lead to a BlastOut. This trope sometimes averts GunsInChurch, when ordinarily it would be spectacularly inappropriate to carry weapons.

*** As of April 2022, twenty-five U.S. states[[note]]Alabama, UsefulNotes/{{Alaska}}, UsefulNotes/{{Arizona}}, Arkansas, UsefulNotes/{{Georgia|USA}}, UsefulNotes/{{Idaho}}, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, UsefulNotes/{{Maine}}, Mississippi, Missouri, UsefulNotes/{{Montana}}, New Hampshire, UsefulNotes/NorthDakota, UsefulNotes/{{Ohio}}, UsefulNotes/{{Oklahoma|USA}}, UsefulNotes/SouthDakota, UsefulNotes/{{Tennessee}}, UsefulNotes/{{Texas}}, UsefulNotes/{{Utah}}, UsefulNotes/{{Vermont}}, West Virginia, and UsefulNotes/{{Wyoming}}[[/note]] are "constitutional carry" jurisdictions, in which no permit or license is required to carry a concealed weapon (in some cases only for residents, in most cases for anybody legally entitled to possess a weapon). Most of these states (Vermont being the exception) still issue permits for "reciprocity" purposes (which may be required for their residents to carry in states that require permits but will recognize out-of-state permits.)

Virtually a given in all ZombieApocalypse scenarios and [[SlidingScaleOfLibertarianismAndAuthoritarianism libertarian]] utopias, and frequently the case with {{Crapsack World}}s, WorldOfBadass, {{Wretched Hive}}s and people who HADToBeSharp. When someone makes the mistake of threatening these people not knowing how well-prepared for trouble they are, it's a case of MuggingTheMonster (which frequently leads to MoreDakka and MultipleGunshotDeath). When there are two separate rival or enemy groups, it's the setup for a MexicanStandoff, which may lead to a BlastOut. This trope sometimes averts GunsInChurch, when ordinarily it would be spectacularly inappropriate to carry weapons.

A crowd of people (patrons in a bar, customers in line at the bank, worshipers at church, etc.), are all armed to the teeth, down to the old lady with a walker, the nun, and the clown with the balloons. Like EverybodyWasKungFuFighting, only with guns, swords, knives, brass knuckles, etc. In other words, a crowd where ''everyone's'' a BadassBystander.

* A cheat code for ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' causes all pedestrians to be armed, carrying everything from handguns to {{R|olePlayingGame}}PGs.
* Due to a glitch in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'', attacking certain pedestrians and then standing on a car would result in the pedestrian running confused into the vehicle for a few seconds before pulling out a pistol and attacking you with it.

* For some reason, ''every single person'' whom you mindhack in ''VideoGame/{{Mindjack}}'' somehow has a shotgun on them. Even little girls.
* In ''{{VideoGame/Postal}}'', depending on which game of the series and difficulty setting you're playing, your shooter character lives in a CrapsackWorld where everyone is trying to kill him back.
* In ''VideoGame/PokerNightAtTheInventory'', should [[Webcomic/PennyArcade Tycho]] be the first one eliminated in the tournament, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khkmoTLmHCE/he will reach for something in his pocket.]] This causes [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 the]] [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner other]] [[Franchise/SamAndMax three]] players to draw their firearms, but it's revealed he was reaching for a [[ShootHimHeHasAWallet Granola bar.]] But if you listen closely, there are four [[NoisyGuns gun clicks,]] implying the [[FeaturelessProtagonist player]] drew a weapon too.
* In the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' universe, every [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Turian]] is required to serve in the military for some years when they come of age. As a result, every turian household keeps small arms in their home, in case of war or conflict.
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':

* In ''VideoGame/Jak3'' everyone in [[WretchedHive Spargus]] carries a weapon in sharp contrast to their counterparts in Haven City.
* ''Every human villager'' in ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' is armed with either a knife or a cleaver, down to the children. With some easy, if tedious bit of military management, you can also make sure every last one of your dwarves has a weapon tucked away, which they'll automatically draw if they get in a fight that requires it. This can have its uses, as dwarves occasionally get vengeful and charge the latest threat without you telling them to. That and there aren't that many things in the game that can live through twenty guys with axes piling in.

* ''VideoGame/{{Westerado}}'': Virtually without exception, every male character in the game has a gun (or a bola. And Indians use tomahawks.), which they will draw if a fight breaks out. Most female characters are also armed with shotguns.
* It should come as little surprise that an awful lot of people in the ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' series are armed, given how the game is set on a mostly lawless backwater planet, and that the series is known for its gratuitous, procedurally generated GunPorn. Quite a few generic townsfolk walk around with guns casually in hand, and almost every named NPC has some sort of special gun to their name (like Hammerlock's large collection of sniper rifles, or Moxxi's elemental LifeDrain weapons).
* Most characters in ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'' are armed out of necessity, whether it be to fend off walkers or defend themselves from anyone attacking them.

* ''Series/HillStreetBlues''. The police run an investigation in a diner, and all of the staff are cops we know, undercover. So when a gang of holdup men burst into the diner, it's no surprise to us that the waiters all pull their guns.

* The TV series ''Series/{{Turks}}'''s pilot episode featured [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LbCyNYOcSo an attempted robbery of a cop bar]].

* In an episode of ''Series/{{Psych}}'', mobsters try to attack [[spoiler:Lassiter and Marlowe's]] wedding. Everyone, including the groom, [[http://www.razorfine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/psych-deez-nups3.jpg draw their weapons and gun them down]] before continuing with the ceremony.
* Creator/TheHistoryChannel reality show ''Series/PawnStars''. Lampshaded heavily in the pitch reel for the show, but downplayed with the actual series.
* ''Series/{{Fortitude}}'', set in the arctic island of Svalbard, where the ever-present threat of polar bear attack means everyone has a rifle. Which makes solving a murder mystery difficult for a visiting police detective.
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/{{Community}}'' in the espionage paintball episode. Jeff tries to confirm that no-one in the study group is involved in the underground paintball game and they all deny that they are. When Chang tries to attack thinking they're unarmed the entire group pulls out guns and shoots him.
* Season Three Episode Fourteen of ''Series/LoisAndClark'' "Tempus, Anyone?" had a parallel Earth (reflecting some obvious anti-gun views on the part of the writers) where Charlton Heston had become president and EVERYONE was armed, generally with assault rifles and sub-machineguns and contrary to actual NRA views would pull them out at a moment's notice.
* ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'': In episode 3, the titular duo pay a visit to the crime-ridden East Asian city of Madripoor. Sure enough, everyone is openly packing, even carrying assault rifles inside a bar.
* ''Series/TheFall'': Unlike other British territorial police forces, all members of the PSNI routinely carry firearms due to the higher levels of gun violence present in Northern Ireland. Even Gibson is issued with one, despite only being a visiting representative from the Met, who don't carry guns (aside from their armed response team). The criminals also far more often have guns, with a police officer even being killed by one in the pilot (hence the police being armed). Many are former terrorists who've taken up regular crime after the Troubles ended, so civilians and police are far more likely to get shot in the province than the British mainland.
* In one episode of ''Series/CriminalMinds,'' the team is surveilling [[spoiler:George Foyet]]'s apartment. When Hotch decides to make his move, the team runs from their position across the street, and ''every person they pass'' turns out to be an undercover FBI agent who joins the raid, from the tourists consulting their map to the homeless man to the young parents cooing over their (empty) baby stroller. There's not a single civilian in sight.
* When the magic disappears in ''Series/Charmed1998,'' Phoebe and Paige agree to meet with a demon to discuss possible solutions, selecting a public place to ensure the demon won't attack and break the {{Masquerade}}. Unfortunately for them, the demons bribed or otherwise scared off the {{Muggle|s}} patrons, and they've armed themselves to the teeth to take advantage of the Charmed Ones losing their powers. Unfortunately for the demons, "Everyone Is Armed" ''includes'' said Charmed Ones.

* The Creator/DeanKoontz novel ''Frankenstein: Lost Souls'': an attempt to [[spoiler:begin assimilating the townsfolk en masse]] at a gathering goes awry when it turns out that almost every adult in town carries a firearm, and the villains encounter significantly more resistance than they had planned on.
* ''Healer'' by F Paul Wilson. One of the planets in this fictional universe is Flint, basically the Planet of the Anarchist Gun Nuts. '''Everyone''' there is armed. Invaders who have been using a portal technology to launch terror raids try this on Flint only to instantly come under fire by everyone they encounter. (Thanks to Der Trihs of the Straight Dope Message Board)
* The novel ''The Probability Broach'' by L. Neil Smith portrays a minarchist society in an alternate history North America, where no one would think of not being armed. [[http://www.bigheadpress.com/tpbtgn?page=0 The Web Comic version is here.]]

* Creator/TerryPratchett's Literature/{{Discworld}} novels
** ''Literature/FeetOfClay'' has a bunch of robbers burst into a tavern frequented by the City Guard: "As their eyes grew accustomed to the gloom, they received a general impression of armorality, with strong overtones of helmetness." They try to take a hostage, but [[MuggingTheMonster make a poor choice]].
** In ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'' there is an attempt to coerce cooperation out of the patrons of Biers. This was also a poor choice, as everyone there who ''isn't'' armed [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire doesn't]] [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent need]] [[TheUndead to be]].
** It's a fundamental part of Dwarf culture to carry battleaxes on principle, and even their pickaxes have an axe on the other side just in case. In ''Literature/RaisingSteam'', an attack on a wedding was less than successful precisely because one of the Dwarven guests had come formally dressed, which to a non-dwarf would look like he was getting ready for war instead, complete with plate armor.

* ''Literature/AcrossTheGreatBarrier'': In an alternate North America inhabited by both pleistocene and magical fauna, going armed is indispensable anywhere beyond the protected frontier.
* ''Literature/TheIcelandicSagas'' accurately depict the omnipresence of weapons in Norse society.
* ''Literature/SkylarkSeries'' by EE Smith, all the heroes are in the habit of going constantly armed...and need to.

* A running gag in the Literature/StephaniePlum novels is that despite New Jersey's strict gun laws, nearly everyone has illegal firearms. The bond office's collateral storeroom is a virtual armory.

* ''Voyage From Yesteryear'' by James P. Hogan. Among the many ways the anarchist Chironians differ from the second wave of colonists from authoritarian Earth is the ubiquitous possession of guns.

* Everyone in Domina City from the web-novel ''Literature/{{Domina}}'' is armed one way or another. Guns are the most common, but there are also people with [[BioAugmentation bio-augmented]] SuperStrength, poison fangs, and weirder things. Adam decides to buy a gun on his first day in the city, and he's given a whole case full shortly after. Even Derek, who DoesntLikeGuns, has a gun, he just usually doesn't bring it with him. It was a gift from his mother when he was a teenager. No one seems to find this odd.
* The novel ''Literature/TheCallOfTheWild'' is set in the Klondike Gold Rush, and one chapter mentions in passing:
-->"Then three or four western bad men aspired to clean out the town, were riddled like pepper-boxes for their pains, and public interest turned to other idols".

* In the ''Literature/{{Eldraeverse}}'' nearly everyone in the Empire of the Star carries a gun and possibly a sword too. Not to mention that the {{Precursors}} decided to implant the eldrae with self-replicating [[MindOverMatter vector control effectors]] enabling them to kill with their minds, if need be.
* In Fritz Leiber's "[[https://archive.org/details/xmarksthepedwalk52776gut X Marks the Pedwalk]]"[[note]]''Worlds of Tomorrow Science Fiction, April 1963, pp. 57-60[[/note]] everyone and his dog has a weapon because society has degenerated into armed warfare between Walkers (pedestrians) and Wheelers (motorists).
* In the ''Literature/{{Newsflesh}}'' post-ZombieApocalypse world, it's considered nearly suicidal stupidity to venture out of one's home without at least one gun and/or armed guards. It's not considered at all remarkable for people to even ''sleep'' with guns in easy reach.
* ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'': When Eric arrives in Ataidar, he discovers that everyone carries weapons all the time. When he asks about laws regulating weapons, Siron explains this trope is both necessary and practical. The world is infested with AlwaysChaoticEvil monsters and beyond that, it is a FantasyKitchenSink with all manner of intelligent creatures with natural weapons (tiger demons and their claws, orcs with their fists, elves with their shapeshifting, etc.). Trying to regulate weapon use among humans is a Sisyphean task. Besides, since [[SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic combat magic is something anyone can learn out of a book]] everyone is armed anyways.

* In ''[[Literature/WearingTheCape Team-Ups and Crossovers]]'', Chicago has become this in one of the alternate universes Astra tumbles through, with every civilian in sight openly carrying handguns. It turns out that [[spoiler:this is the aftermath of what would have happened if she hadn't stopped the missile in Omega Night]].

* In ''Film/RoboCop3'', a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaUqdIFUbxE truly stupid crook]] picks the wrong [[DonutMessWithACop doughnut shop]] to attempt to rob.
-->'''Cashier:''' [''as every laser sight in the shop centers on the crook''] What's it like being a rocket scientist?
* In ''Film/{{Predator 2}}'', several people in a subway car draw guns in response to an attempted robbery, including the two cops who happen to be there at the time. Unfortunately, since this happens at the same time the Predator was stalking the subway car, all this achieved was adding ''[[NiceJobBreakingItHero more]]'' potential targets for him to hunt. Still, at least [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking no-one was robbed]].
* ''Film/TheNakedGun'':
** In the first film, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K8s9cNqZO4 Nordberg]] takes about five minutes to break down the door to arrest a boatload of villains. He finally gets through the door but everyone in the cabin already has their hardware out and pointed at him.
** In ''Naked Gun 33⅓'', Rocko and company tunnel out of prison into a Los Angeles high school, where every student opens fire on them, including one with an ''M60 machine gun''.
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' when a HystericalWoman has a panic attack when it appears that the plane is going to crash. Creator/LeslieNielsen begins [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan slapping her]], but then is interrupted by a stewardess, who takes over and resumes the slapping. The stewardess is in turn interrupted by a nun, and then ''she'' begins to slap the woman mercilessly. We then pan alongside an absurdly long line of passengers, all of them wielding increasingly deadly weapons with which to assault the poor woman.
* Also PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/AirplaneIITheSequel'' when a hospitalized Ted Stryker is [[TheBore giving his life story to]] Dr. Stone. At one point Stryker stops and tells Dr. Stone there was more to his life story but he'd be bored. At that point every other patient, doctor, and orderly in the psychiatric ward [[https://www.imfdb.org/wiki/File:A2_suicides.jpg pulls out firearms]] and when Dr. Stone tells Stryker to keep going everyone else promptly [[DrivenToSuicide shoot themselves]].
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** During the escape from the Death Star in ''Film/ANewHope'', Han Solo chases a small group of Stormtroopers right into a room full of MORE Stormtroopers. In the Special Edition, Lucas [[Film/ThisIsSpinalTap turns it up to 11]] by making the room an entire ''Hangar'' full of [[{{Mooks}} Imperials]].
** In ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', all of the people in Lor San Tekka's village on Jakku and Maz Kanata's bar on Takodana are armed with blasters. So when the First Order rolls in, the whole area turns into a war-zone.
* ''Film/LastActionHero'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwTf9WurF4U the funeral scene]] where all the mourners -- including grannies and nuns -- whip out firearms.

* In ''Film/BlazingSaddles'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZT7xLjxuhs this was the reception]] Sheriff Bart received upon entering Rock Ridge for the first time. Even the school marm was packing!
* Referenced in ''Film/MissCongeniality''. After Gracie tackles a guy in the crowd thinking he was a shooter (he was reaching for his lighter and a cigarette), she tries to defend her actions by pointing out the man did have a gun. The response is: "Of course he had a gun! This is Texas, ''everyone'' has a gun! My ''florist'' has a gun!"

* ''Film/ThePunisher1989'': a high-level Mafioso meeting turns out to be a Bystander Mooks ambush.
* ''Film/TheThinMan'' sequel ""The Thin Man Goes Home'': Before giving TheSummation, Nick wants everyone searched for weapons, despite his father's protestations the small-town folks wouldn't be packing. Most are.
* ''Film/DeadSnowRedVsDead'': Averted, when some Americans are facing a horde of undead Nazi soldiers in Norway. Accustomed to being able to buy shotguns and hunting rifles in any sporting goods store, they are appalled at the lack of available firearms.
* ''Film/ThePresidentsAnalyst'' is cracking up under the pressure of his job -- he meets his girlfriend Nan in a hotel cocktail lounge and rants madly about spies out to get him. When she urges him to get help he snaps out of it, thinks about how he sounds, and then puts it to the test. He loudly fakes getting shot and crumples to the floor. A moment later he opens his eyes and laughs triumphantly as everyone in the room is on their feet holding a gun...[[spoiler:then is horrified to see Nan is too -- then he [[AllJustADream wakes up]].]]
* In ''Film/Deadpool2016'', when Francis and Angel Dust burst into Weasel's bar to shake him down for intel on Wade. This being a [[BadGuyBar mercenary bar]], as soon as Angel Dust lays hands on Weasel, the entire clientele pulls guns on them.
* ''Film/DeathWishVTheFaceOfDeath'' has a scene where a kid with a message runs inside a church that's holding a funeral service. Since the service is for a mafia member, the church is filled with jumpy criminals who pull a gun on the kid when he comes inside.
* In the [[Film/LittleWorldOfDonCamillo first Don Camillo]] movie about everyone in town owns a gun including [[BadassPreacher the local priest don Camillo]] (who has a military-issue rifle and a submachinegun at home, and is alleged to have a ''mortar'' hidden somewhere) and the mayor Peppone (who owned a large ''arsenal'' before don Camillo set it on fire (and stole a submachinegun from it), and in a later movie is shown to have a ''tank''). {{Justified}}, as the movie is set shortly after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and those who have guns are former [[LaResistance partisans]] who still kept their weapons (and the tank is a war residuate that was found abandoned in the last days of the war, with Peppone and his group recovering and repairing it).
* This is a major plot point in ''Film/LightningJack''. In the film's main town every citizen is not only armed, but officially deputized and with an effective watch system. While this does prove effective against most gangs, it also makes their bank awful tempting for any outlaws who want to build a real reputation...

* In the Franchise/JamesBond movie ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'', all the servants, kitchen staff and groundskeepers in the BigFancyHouse used by British Intelligence to house a high-ranking Soviet defector are armed guards. That doesn't stop TheDragon from tearing through them, though [[BattleButler Green Four]] gives him some trouble before he's subdued.
* ''Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet'' updates the play by recasting the Montagues and Capulets as warring mafia empires in a fictional California city. Naturally, most of the principles are always armed. Even the [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_0777.JPG poster for the movie]] plays this up.

* In ''Film/DeepInTheValley'', Lance and Dick chase Lester Carl into Busta Nutt's party and pull guns on them. Then everyone at the party turns round, pulls out a weapon, and points it at them. Including one girl who pulls a ''bazooka'' from behind her back.

** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': A [[TooDumbToLive terminally stupid]] Changeling infiltrator attacks Odo in a meeting hall on a Klingon Starbase filled with heavily armed Klingons in the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E01ApocalypseRising Apocalypse Rising]], exposing himself as a Changeling. This results in the Changeling getting shot continously by the assembled Klingons until he explodes.