I seem to recall a National Geographic episode on the rural Chinese sometime before the clintoons were in power and there were scenes of peasant farmers squatting around a fire heating up water to cook rice or yak testicles or whatever it was they ate and even the some of the women had AKs and SKSs slung over their shoulders.
The tolerance of peasants carrying guns in the boondocks is pretty universal.
The local law recognizes the threat of four footed predators in the green jungle.
They never recognize the threat of two footed predators in the concrete jungle.
Professional courtesy, I guess...