Reply #5: Bodyguards also create the illusion of authority

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There's a guy speaking at an event, and there are these big musclebound guys who are armed surrounding him and scowling into the crowd.

David Horowitz is well-versed in this, he goes to events at Colleges which are already screened, there is not a single threat against him, yet he has armed security on the stage by his side and walking through the audience.