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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"Hey man you know I'm really okay
''The gun in my hand will tell you the same"''
|'''[[The Offspring]]'''|"Bad Habit"}}
A comedy trope: John Doe is wrongly suspected of being a psycho and he ends up with a gun or other weapon in his hands. Then, he tries to explain himself while holding the weapon. As he makes hand gestures, he points it at the mob around him, which recoils in terror.
Compare [[I Just Shot Marvin in
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* One particularly [[
** Of course, neither of them was [[Sanity Slippage|entirely sane]] by that point, so...
** {{spoiler|Not only is he carrying the axe, he chases after Satako with it, then explains how he killed her uncle and has been losing his mind for several days.
* Ruby gets scolded for casually gesturing with a loaded Crescent Rose in rifle configuration while on a Terran firing range in the first story of the ''[[RWBY]]'' fic series ''[[Emergence]]''. Justified in that Remnans with activated Auras are [[Nigh Invulnerability|nigh invulnerable]] to bullets and it simply ''doesn't occur to them''.
== [[Film]] ==
* The Whammyburger scene in ''[[Falling Down]]''. Of course, Michael Douglas' character uses the opportunity to make a stand against the fifth or sixth thing that has pissed him off that day.
* The movie ''[[Edmond]]'' has a sick subversion. During his mid-life crisis, Edmond breaks up with his wife and goes on a nightlong quest for redemption. He picks up a waitress at a bar and sleeps with her. Earlier in the night, he purchased a knife from a pawn shop, for protection, and uses the knife to stab a pimp who tried to rob him. Edmond is in the waitress' apartment, raving and ranting about... whatever. All the while, he's waving the knife around to emphasize his point. To make a long story short, he ends up brutally stabbing her to death in a fit of rage.
* ''[[Weird Science (
* In ''[[North
== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[
* In one of the ''[[Psych]]'' novels, a person of interest in a murder investigation finds a bloody knife in his pocket while giving his statement; he takes the officer interviewing him hostage while claiming that someone is trying to frame him.
* In Polish nove ''Escape from Festung Breslau'' protagonist, German soldier, wants to get a doctors opinion, that he needs vacation, but is morally oposed to simulating disease. His friend manipulates a visit to a particularly strict doctor in a way that leads to this trope and diagnosis of mild breakdown. Scene itself is easily [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].
== [[Live
* One episode of ''[[Samantha Who]]?'' is called "The Stalker" and it's about Samantha's attempt to apologize to someone to whom she stalked in her "evil" former personality, but continually makes the situation worse. During the same episode, she tries to bond with her father by going hunting with him. Thus, she ends up explaining to the man she stalked and the crowd that she is not crazy, while pointing a rifle at him and them. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
== [[Music]] ==
* [[The Offspring]] song quoted above is actually [[Not an Example]]: it's about an [[Ax Crazy]] [[Drives Like Crazy|driver]] with a [[Hair-Trigger Temper]].
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
* [[Real Life]] subversion: [http://www.keepandbeararms.com/information/XcIBViewItem.asp?ID=942 U.S. Senator Feinstein sweeps the crowd with the automatic rife, finger on the trigger, high-capacity magazine attached.] While lamenting recklessness of gun manufacturers and preaching for complete gun ban, of course. Her audience does not react.▼
** So basically, she's trying to keep guns out of the hands of people ''less'' idiotic than she is?▼
** [[Self-Demonstrating Article|No, she's trying to demonstrate what will happen if people who don't have gun training gets a gun]]. A trained police or soldier wouldn't wave his or her gun in front of a crowd.▼
== [[Theatre]] ==
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* In ''[[Persona 4]]'', Yosuke does a variant of this early in the game. After offering the main character a choice between a long sword and a dagger, Yosuke gets it into his head that he should use both, and tries a few moves. A cop sees him, and moves in to arrest Yosuke. Yosuke tries to explain himself, while still flailing about with his weapons. He and the main character end up being arrested.
** They were in the outdoor food-court of the local department store, and their small town had recently been struck by a series of bizarre murders. This is not the first (or last) time that Yosuke's lack of common sense gets him into (often hilarious) trouble.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' had Dr. Bunnigus of all people [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-07-23 talk while brandishing a scalpel]. Though she was talking with Petey immediately before that, he has this effect sometimes.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* ''[[The
* In Volume 1, Episode 15 of ''[[RWBY]]'', the girls encounter a pair of plainclothes cops at the site of a dust store robbery, who make broad, careless gestures with their pistols while discussing the case.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', when Homer was accused of the attempted murder of Mr. Burns.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* [[Real Life]] subversion: [http://www.keepandbeararms.com/information/XcIBViewItem.asp?ID=942 U.S. Senator Feinstein sweeps the crowd with the automatic rife, finger on the trigger, high-capacity magazine attached.] While lamenting recklessness of gun manufacturers and preaching for complete gun ban, of course. Her audience does not react.
▲** So basically, she's trying to keep guns out of the hands of people ''less'' idiotic than she is?
▲*** [[Self-Demonstrating Article|No, she's trying to demonstrate what will happen if people who don't have gun training gets a gun]]. A trained police or soldier wouldn't wave his or her gun in front of a crowd.
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