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People with guns? People with scissors have less power (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

snipers

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'people' is the definition.
(sniper is a kind of person)

'scissors have less power' is the wordplay.
'scissors' becomes 'snips' (snips is a kind of scissors).
'have' is an insertion indicator.
'less power' becomes 'er' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'snips' placed around 'er' is 'SNIPERS'.

'with guns? people with' acts as a link.
This may not be correct. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for snipers that I've seen before include "They take pot-shots" , "Lone gunmen" , "Sharpshooters" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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