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'''Simon Gruber:''' Well, if that's what you gotta do.
(click...click click...click)
'''Simon Gruber:''' (calmly takes gun, releases safety) You've got to take the safety catch off. (Shoots Zeus in the leg) See, that works.
|''[[Die Hard]] III''}}
If guns are featured in a movie, and someone inexperienced takes to using one (the [[Damsel in Distress]] or similar character), there's a good chance of this phrase being uttered. There are three versions:
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** Although laser weapons would need safeties for the same reason conventional firearms have them.
** The same applies to Stan in an episode of ''[[Lexx]]''.
* In an episode of
* ''[[Castle]]'': The murderer is cornered by Beckett while holding Castle hostage at gunpoint. After uncovering the murderer's motive, Castle knocks him down and wrests the gun from him. Beckett tells him he could have been killed, and Castle replies that the safety was on the whole time.
{{quote|'''Beckett''': Y'know, you could've told me.
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