Sounds like the scouts learned several nice lessons on civics.
The police are your friends.
Government employees are well-trained, well-vetted, and capable individuals that should be trusted and respected.
Only kooks are afraid of an expansion of government power, decent people obviously have nothing to fear from their public servants.
If you’ve done nothing wrong then you’ve got nothing to hide.
Guns should obviously be restricted to the police and military, since they’re obviously the only ones trustworthy and capable enough to use them responsibly and intelligently.
Hopefully those scouts have enough sense between them to draw the proper conclusions from this encounter. A healthy distrust of human nature, and a very rational appreciation of the evils of government, are essential civic virtues in a republic — only dictatorships and cults have any use for fawning sheep.
I see what you did there.
Well done