Police are licensed to kill as well.
Seems late in the game for people to complain about the politics of espionage and evesdropping. It helped us win major battles in WWII.
Fleming has an interesting story. He wasn't Bond, but he was recorded as sitting down to one last gourmet feast in Hungary as the Soviet tanks rolled in. The real Bond would have been on the streets blowing away T-72's with his Beretta... ;-)