{"id":30306,"date":"2015-02-21T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=30306"},"modified":"2019-01-10T09:52:11","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T14:52:11","slug":"dont-learn-firearms-rules-from-the-big-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/02\/21\/dont-learn-firearms-rules-from-the-big-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t learn firearms &#8220;rules&#8221; from the big screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/2015\/02\/robert-farago\/three-worst-things-westerns-taught-guns\/\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Farago<\/a> learned a lot from watching TV and movies. Luckily, it didn&#8217;t kill him:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My main squeeze had never watched <em>High Noon<\/em>. Thanks to Netflix, I rectified that omission. I hadn\u2019t seen Gary Cooper\u2019s darting eyes in a good forty years. Watching the Marshal fail to marshal the townspeople to defend themselves against a quartet of outlaws, it all came flooding back. How a good man sometimes has to stand alone. How fine Grace Kelly looked in a skin-tight bodice (not an observation I shared with my SO). How a single shot can make a man fall down dead in an instant. Wait. What? Yup. Here are three really stupid lessons I learned from watching cowboy movies as a kid &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Handguns kill instantly<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>What I learned &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Saturday matin\u00e9e westerns on UHF TV, I grew-up believing bad guys died when you shot them. They did so without hesitation, deviation or repetition. One bullet was more than enough to shuffle a bad guy off this mortal coil. I also learned that the good guy never dies from a gunshot wound, although he sometimes <em>seems<\/em> to. And if a bad guy\u2019s bullet does take out a good guy &mdash; usually a supporting player &mdash; he\u2019s got more than enough time to say something heroic and stoic first.<\/p>\n<p>Truth be told &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>With modern medical care and internal combustion-powered hospital transportation, most people who get shot live. No matter what caliber ammo you use, it\u2019s really hard to stop someone in their tracks with a handgun round. Even if you hit the bad guy center mass, perforating his heart or severing a major artery, they\u2019ve got at least 30 seconds to drag your ass into the afterlife with them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Farago learned a lot from watching TV and movies. Luckily, it didn&#8217;t kill him: My main squeeze had never watched High Noon. Thanks to Netflix, I rectified that omission. I hadn\u2019t seen Gary Cooper\u2019s darting eyes in a good forty years. 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