Fiction

fadedrose

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12. Oh dear

Mon Dec 17, 2012, 11:38 AM

Dec 2012

When guns are no longer available, knitting needles will be the killing instrument of choice and many techniques will be taught at police academies.

This doesn't fit here, but I should have put it in my op: In several books I've read, a cop is gunshy because he wrongly shot someone, usually a kid, and as a result, has a deady fear of using a gun again and quits the force. It is a sign of healing and the reader is made to feel happy when the cop gets out his gun again to shoot someone. It's something authors should not praise.

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In practically all the fiction books I read.... [View all] fadedrose Dec 2012 OP

Social stigma? krispos42 Dec 2012 #1

They'd have to think of more inventive ways to kill... fadedrose Dec 2012 #2

I don't know that it is a fear of the NRA Curmudgeoness Dec 2012 #3

I never thought about POI in that way but it's great example... Little Star Dec 2012 #5

A lot of the foreign crime dramas work without recourse to guns Lydia Leftcoast Dec 2012 #6

That's very interesting. Thanks Lydia. Little Star Dec 2012 #7

I think you have a good point.... Little Star Dec 2012 #4

I do believe you are on to something. Curmudgeoness Dec 2012 #8

That place (the gungeon) is too scary for me. I don't think I ever.. Little Star Dec 2012 #9

LOL, I have never been there either Curmudgeoness Dec 2012 #10

As someone who has never smoked, SheilaT Dec 2012 #11

Oh dear fadedrose Dec 2012 #12

Why nothing I ever write will SheilaT Dec 2012 #13

Don't look now....knitting needles are a threat ;) fadedrose Dec 2012 #14