It's not like superheroes don't have a long history of anti-gun advocacy (does the name Batman ring any bells?), but jeez, the dialogue and plot in this episode was so badly written and made no sense. I absolutely agree that normal people don't need guns, especially not semi-automatic or automatic ones - but none of the people on this show actually lead normal lives. I also absolutely agree that if possible, using non-lethal force is preferable, and considering the insane tech that Winn and others have whipped up in a matter of hours or days before, it's easy to imagine that he could build a fully-functioning Stark Trek-like stun gun. In fact, that would have been an actually cool plotline - they have the technology to create powerful non-lethal weapons, why do they still automatically default to equipping their agents with guns? But instead it just felt heavy-handed and nonsensical.
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It's not like superheroes don't have a long history of anti-gun advocacy (does the name Batman ring any bells?), but jeez, the dialogue and plot in this episode was so badly written and made no sense. I absolutely agree that normal people don't need guns, especially not semi-automatic or automatic ones - but none of the people on this show actually lead normal lives. I also absolutely agree that if possible, using non-lethal force is preferable, and considering the insane tech that Winn and others have whipped up in a matter of hours or days before, it's easy to imagine that he could build a fully-functioning Stark Trek-like stun gun. In fact, that would have been an actually cool plotline - they have the technology to create powerful non-lethal weapons, why do they still automatically default to equipping their agents with guns? But instead it just felt heavy-handed and nonsensical.