I think it's mainly because she has never been involved in any criminal activities before.
The day she was called she mistook her watcher for a store detective investigating stolen lipstick. She completely endorses Willow’s hacking activities and Xander’s acquisition of a US army rocket launcher. She breaks into countless official buildings on routine information gathering expeditions and robs a sporting goods store with Faith (after ascertaining that the goods are insured). She does take the law on unlawful killings very seriously but property law, especially corporate property she’s consistently flexible on.
As to the need for all this equipment we’ve already been shown one instance where stakes and crosses would have proved inadequate, namely Yammanh's invasion of the upper world. I thought at the time that might be an indication that the world had changed in terms of either the level of demon aggression or Buffy and Co’s awarness of it now that they’re no longed locked down in Sunnydale and Buffy’s line about there seeming to be more demons to fight appears to confirm that.
I’m a parent and can sympathise with parental concerns, I always liked Joyce. But I’d feel much happier that my daughters were making their own choices to help save a world under constant attack by monsters and were part of a well funded organisation that cared about their welfare under the new regime than in the old days of the Watcher’s Council. I’d probably be selfish and turn a blind eye to where that funding came from. Did you think Giles was a corrupter of youth? Or Spike when he taught Dawn to shimmy open the Magic Box door? The show was never big on parental points of view, we never get to ask what Xander or Willow’s parents think of Buffy’s influence. These comics are finally introducing such concerns as an issue - whatever the back story to her bank job, the problems it creates in terms of Buffy being a role model for other Slayers are being made completely textual and something Buffy is taking very much on board.
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The day she was called she mistook her watcher for a store detective investigating stolen lipstick. She completely endorses Willow’s hacking activities and Xander’s acquisition of a US army rocket launcher. She breaks into countless official buildings on routine information gathering expeditions and robs a sporting goods store with Faith (after ascertaining that the goods are insured). She does take the law on unlawful killings very seriously but property law, especially corporate property she’s consistently flexible on.
As to the need for all this equipment we’ve already been shown one instance where stakes and crosses would have proved inadequate, namely Yammanh's invasion of the upper world. I thought at the time that might be an indication that the world had changed in terms of either the level of demon aggression or Buffy and Co’s awarness of it now that they’re no longed locked down in Sunnydale and Buffy’s line about there seeming to be more demons to fight appears to confirm that.
I’m a parent and can sympathise with parental concerns, I always liked Joyce. But I’d feel much happier that my daughters were making their own choices to help save a world under constant attack by monsters and were part of a well funded organisation that cared about their welfare under the new regime than in the old days of the Watcher’s Council. I’d probably be selfish and turn a blind eye to where that funding came from. Did you think Giles was a corrupter of youth? Or Spike when he taught Dawn to shimmy open the Magic Box door? The show was never big on parental points of view, we never get to ask what Xander or Willow’s parents think of Buffy’s influence. These comics are finally introducing such concerns as an issue - whatever the back story to her bank job, the problems it creates in terms of Buffy being a role model for other Slayers are being made completely textual and something Buffy is taking very much on board.