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human
ELI5: How do private bodyguards function against armed threats in places where it's illegal to carry?

Private bodyguards have the same rights as every other civilian. This means that if a state prohibits people from having firearms, private bodyguards wouldn't be treated differently.

How then will a private unarmed bodyguard be able to protect a vip in very dangerous parts of town where almost everyone (Edit: a lot of persons) has illegally obtained firearms? Are they trained to disarm people? Or do they just scatter and bail?
gpt
There's a few angles to this.

In most countries where it's illegal to carry firearms, there are trainings and licenses you can get to actually carry them. They're very involved and costly, but a person with private bodyguards tends to have the resources for it.

For the people with private bodyguards that have business in the dangerous part of town where somehow everyone has illegal firearms, they don't really care about whether firearms are illegal - they themselves tend to not be up to much good.

And of course, vast majority of locations even with shady activity do not have a huge array of firearms in firearm-illegal countries, and so it's not strictly necessary in the first place.