Reckless Gun Usage/Playing With

Basic Trope: Characters don't use gun safely but don't have a reason to know.

• Straight: Alice casually points her pistol at Bob while talking to him.
• Exaggerated: Alice uses the barrel of her pistol to scratch her nose.
  • Or worse, Alice is way, way, way Too Dumb to Live and attempts to pick her teeth with the trigger.
• Justified: Alice has no idea what a gun is.
  • Alice is drunk, stoned, or just REALLY stupid.
  • Alice thinks she knows more about safe gun handling than she really does.
• Inverted: Alice tries to shoot Bob, but she leaves the safety on.
• Subverted: Alice waves her gun around carelessly, but then explains that it's just a suction dart gun.
• Double Subverted: Alice got her suction dart pistol mixed up with her real pistol.
• Parodied: Alice carelessly waves around a super soaker. It goes off like a real gun.
• Deconstructed: Alice shoots Bob in the face because she wasn't using it properly.
• Reconstructed: Alice narrowly misses Bob, who promptly educates her in gun safety.
• Zig Zagged: Alice catches herself pointing her pistol at Bob and hastily corrects herself, explaining that even though it's a suction dart gun, she shouldn't get sloppy. Turns out it's a real gun, which she finds out when she deliberately fires at a target. Bob is standing behind the target.
• Averted: Alice handles her gun in a safe manner.
• Enforced: The film is a comedy, and Alice's ineptitude with guns is a Running Gag.
• Lampshaded: "You killed me three times during that sentence. Put down the gun."
• Invoked: "And this is how not to use a gun."
• Defied: Alice double-checks that her gun is unloaded before handing it to Bob, and even then warns him not to point it about recklessly.
• Discussed: "Anyone using their gun as a pointer will not have a gun anymore."
• Conversed: "I can't believe she's just waving it around like that. Five bucks says she shoots Bob in the face."

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