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{{quote|'''Rocko Dillon:''' ''[[Firing in the Air a Lot|[fires a gunshot into the air to silence the audience]]]'' Freeze, and nobody gets hurt!<br />
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* Brilliantly subverted in [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/all-safe/ this] ''[[Wapsi Square]]'' strip. Monica makes absolutely sure her vintage revolver is unloaded, and then manages to knock herself out with it.
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' had the eponymous amorph [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2009-05-17 literally juggling] his plasma guns... lacking safety switches and powerful enough that he need only one to use as a makeshift [[Jet Pack]].
** That said, he also invokes the trope at one
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** Bennett the Sage takes this to the extreme in the two-year anniversary special ''[[Kickassia]]'' where, as Surgeon General of Kickassia, he determines that Uzis make you unkillable, on the grounds that [[You Fail Logic Forever|he's holding one, and he isn't dead]]. He's later seen wiping tears away ''with the barrel of the Uzi.''
* ''[[Girlchan in Paradise]]'', "It's out of bullets, anyway!" "Then that means I can do this!" (''[[Too Dumb to Live|BANG]]'')
* ''[[The Onion]]'', [http://www.theonion.com/articles/8yearold-accidentally-exercises-second-amendment-r,725/ this] article , an 8-year-old boy who unintentionally shot himself in the thigh wins praise from [[Strawman Political
* ''[http://idiotswithguns.blogspot.com/ Idiots with Guns]'' blog, dedicated to the people who for some reason think Hollywood style gun handling makes them look "cool", as opposed to irresponsible and/or stupid.
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'': Homer buys a gun and uses it for such things as opening a can of beer, and turning on his TV (complete with a Mook from a Western falling off a roof at that exact moment). This actually gets him kicked out of the local gun club. In the same episode, Marge gets annoyed when Homer plays with the gun at the breakfast table. Homer puts the safety on, but only manages to accidentally fire the gun, hitting a picture of Marge. He nervously comments that he accidentally turned the safety ''off'', and turns it ''on''... and the gun again discharges, hitting the picture of Marge. Freaked out by now, Homer puts the gun on the
{{quote|'''Lisa''': ... No offense, mom, but that ''was'' pretty cool.}}
** In ''[[The Simpsons Movie]]'', Chief Wiggum can't carry enough donuts, so he stacks them on the barrel of his gun, [[What an Idiot!|and]] [[Big Eater|then]] [[Artistic License Gun Safety|eats]] [[Idiot Ball|them]] [[Donut Mess with a Cop|straight]] [[Don't Try This At Home|off]] [[Too Dumb to Live|it]]. The gun goes off while he's between bites, blowing a hole through his hat. He says "Whoa, that was a close one!" and [[The Ditz|continues]] [[Refuge in Audacity|eating]]. Another episode, showing film of him when he was younger at a firing range, has him looking down the barrel after his gun stops and getting yelled at by his instructor ("What did I say about pointsy-twardsies?"). He then gives the instructor a back massage with the gun and it goes off and shoots the cameraman. He's later shown to have gotten the position of Chief by giving the Mayor a back massage with his gun. Another episode showed Wiggum cleaning his ears with the barrel of his gun, and yet another showed him firing at his TV after forgetting where he left the remote. It was in his gun holster.
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