Put Down Your Gun and Step Away: Difference between revisions

The heroes will do ''exactly'' that, and it's usually only a stroke of luck that saves them from the villain just plugging them right then and there. It's implied that [[Karmic Death|karmically this is the right thing to do]], though, so that stroke of luck will happen nearly every time as a "reward."

 

 

A possible reason why this works in fiction is that [[Evil Is Cool]] in there. In [[Real Life]], criminals are far more cowardly and ''most definitely'' not cool. On the other hand, hitting an object as small as a person's head at more than a few paces with a handgun is ''really'' difficult, so it's more of a case of psychological pressure on a cowardly criminal that makes this trope far from [[Truth in Television]], but that could be said of most cases of defensive firearm use.