A Light Shining In DarknessTIL that the NRA campaigned to avoid the TV series *MacGyver* and to boycott its sponsors because MacGyver didn’t use guns.
HowToPhil (Phillip R)@fzer0 Leaving aside that it was a good message (which it was), I like leaving guns out of my main characters' hands. The gun becomes "the solution" and ruins creative stories
Cluster Fcku@howtophil @fzer0 which is why so many kids adventure stories are far more creative and compelling (to adults in for a good story) than the sudden anxiety and power imbalance by a gun that crashes the story into cliches.