Your rebuttal seems to be "but the leader wasn't packing heat (alongside all of his underlings who were)". I would counter that if the leader has a bunch of people around him with guns, whether they themselves personally were carrying guns doesn't matter that much.
Your rebuttal seems to be "but the leader wasn't packing heat (alongside all of his underlings who were)". I would counter that if the leader has a bunch of people around him with guns, whether they themselves personally were carrying guns doesn't matter that much.