GOOD LORD LADY!!!

@Ardashir  
Weapons are good for preventing that too

@Prometheushunter2  
Weapons usually do a great job of making people stop and listen rather than laughing you off. You just have to hope they don’t call the cops next.

The sword is so no one tries to stop her

And this story looks like it’s about as deep as a rain puddle.

Is that old mare supposed to be Carrie Nation?

@Background Pony #EFB2  
Jails are run by local authorities and are for inmates serving a short sentence. Usually people staying in jail are there for misdemeanors. Prisons are either federal or private and are for long sentences. Inmates serving time in prison are there for felonies.

@Vree  
You need to chill.

@Background Pony #EFB2  
I admit, they can be used interchangeably. I think the best way to word it is that every prison is a jail, but not every jail is a prison.
 
Like, when you’re arrested by the cops and locked up in a cell at the station, you’re in jail, but you aren’t yet in prison. That requires a trial.
 
So in the context of this comic, Twilight is WELL within her rights to arrest this mare for brandishing a deadly weapon in this manner, and thus have her cool her head in a cell for a night, or until trial if charges are pressed. What Twilight cannot do, however (at least, I hope she can’t), is sentence her to 20 years in prison or something. That requires a trial.

@Darth Sonic  
Wait, what’s the difference? I’ve only ever known those words to be used interchangeably (unless we’re talking about prison camps for POWs).

I see her weapon follows MMORPG logic and is glued to her body until she draws it.

@Red-Supernova  
I mean, it should be. She has to protect public safety. Going to jail is not the same thing as going to prison.

@Darth Sonic  
Yes, but Twilight’s first instinct isn’t “That’s a no-no, now go to jail.”

@Vree  

@Red-Supernova  
I mean, don’t you want Equestria to be a nation that enforces it’s laws?

@Vree  
Popular bronies have a strong urge to see the characters react to situations in the same way to how real life would really react to these situations.

@Vree
 
There’s very little purpose to swinging around a sword except to cause harm.
 
I mean, being a cartoon this is more a joke for the absurdity of the situation, but in real life doing something life that’s grounds for getting the police called.
 
 
@Background Pony #6272
 
Clearly she thinks she’s talking to someone who doesn’t have a sword.

Does this lady have any idea who she’s talking to?

Hey old mare! Di you not read the sign? No Guns, No Swords, No Briefcases!

@Beau Skunky  
But Starlight’s room in blue, with books and stuff.

???

@cheezedoodle  
👍🙂

@MLP-Silver-Quill  
Calling it, her dungeon is pink, with cute decorations.

Uh oh, grandma’s off her medications again.
 
@MLP-Silver-Quill  
You and other popular bronies really want to see the characters make the reactions to how our society would handle these scenarios, don’t you?