• Frozengyro@lemmy.world
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      a pragmatic system of legalized crime through guilds, with the Thieves Guild and Assassins’ Guild handling their respective activities under the watchful eye of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch and the Patrician, Lord Vetinari.

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        Combine with an armed citizenry, I’m all in.

        Confiscate all weapons, and crime would go down. It made sense. It would have worked, too, if only there had been enough coppers – say, three per citizen.

        Amazingly, quite a few weapons were handed in. The flaw, though, was one that had somehow managed to escape Swing, and it was this: criminals don’t obey the law. It’s more or less a requirement for the job. They had no particular interest in making the streets safer for anyone except themselves. And they couldn’t believe what was happening. It was like Hogswatch every day.

        Some citizens took the not-unreasonable view that something had gone a bit askew if only naughty people were carrying arms. And they got arrested in large numbers.