Why Emphasize That It's A LOADED Gun?

[The Night Rider]

I think you watch too much television.

I actually don't watch a lot of television. It's more like I'm in the room while my wife is watching television. When I'm in the room alone the TV is turned off or it's turned to Pandora/Tune In

 

[Ignition Override]

Maybe Hollywood indirectly will contribute a tiny bit to gun safety somewhere.

Despite the senseless tragedy on the movie set in NM where nobody checked the revolver, which often was used for target practice etc--
--maybe more people, having heard the word "Loaded" more often, will decide to actually pull back slides/bolts to look at magazines (?)+ chambers (most still won't know to first remove the mag.), and on revolvers open the cylinders.

 

[Archie]

Because the world is full of seemingly educated people who STILL don't know pulling the trigger is not the best way to determine the status of the arm. I tend not to hand an arm to anyone I do not know.

 

[Miami_JBT]

Maybe Hollywood indirectly will contribute a tiny bit to gun safety somewhere.

Despite the senseless tragedy on the movie set in NM where nobody checked the revolver, which often was used for target practice etc--
--maybe more people, having heard the word "Loaded" more often, will decide to actually pull back slides/bolts to look at magazines (?)+ chambers (most still won't know to first remove the mag.), and on revolvers open the cylinders.

I fully stand behind Alec Baldwin, because standing in front of him is a death sentence.

 

[peeplwtchr]

I just watched Blue Bloods season 14 episode 12, "Without Fear or Favor". Without going into the whole episode a retired cop gets into a verbal altercation with somebody in a bar and pulls out his handgun essentially to threaten the guy to back down. In Colorado that would be aggravated menacing.

So of course Frank Reagan gets involved, he calls the guy in and while they're debriefing the incident Baker asked the cop something along the lines of "Why did you threaten this guy with a Loaded gun?" She emphasized that the gun was loaded as if that was somehow more serious than if he had threatened the guy with an unloaded gun.

I also notice that when incidents like this are reported on the news (Local andnational), In Real Life great emphasis is placed on whether or not the gun was loaded. Actually, you never hear a reporter say that somebody was threatened with an "unloaded" gun.

So I really think as I'm asking this, the question is answering itself. I think to the untrained ear it sounds much more dramatic and scary to say that somebody was threatened with a loaded gun or that the criminal was caught with a loaded gun or that a loaded gun was found in the car then it would be to just say a gun was found in the car

Saw them says this on the news 10 minutes ago, I thought the same thing immediately.

 

[Ignition Override]

So many people absorb "reality" only from tv and movies.

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[Jim Watson]

I saw a news item about a wacko shot by cops because he was standing in the road with one of those FULLY loaded guns and would not obey commands to surrender.

 

[The Night Rider]

I saw a news item about a wacko shot by cops because he was standing in the road with one of those FULLY loaded guns and would not obey commands to surrender.

And they wouldn't have shot him if the gun was unloaded?

 

[Jim Watson]

But what if it were only partly loaded?
Just doesn’t have the headline zing, does it?

 

[orionengnr]

If you point a gun at me I will assume it is loaded. And respond accordingly.
I would expect any thinking person would do likewise.
Most laws are based upon "what would a reasonable person do (or conclude)."

 

[Carl N. Brown]

In the gripping crime drama "Raising Arizona" convenience store robber "Hi" McDunnough was granted early parole in part because the gun he used to threaten was unloaded.

 

[RetiredUSNChief]

I just watched Blue Bloods season 14 episode 12, "Without Fear or Favor". Without going into the whole episode a retired cop gets into a verbal altercation with somebody in a bar and pulls out his handgun essentially to threaten the guy to back down. In Colorado that would be aggravated menacing.

So of course Frank Reagan gets involved, he calls the guy in and while they're debriefing the incident Baker asked the cop something along the lines of "Why did you threaten this guy with a Loaded gun?" She emphasized that the gun was loaded as if that was somehow more serious than if he had threatened the guy with an unloaded gun.

I also notice that when incidents like this are reported on the news (Local andnational), In Real Life great emphasis is placed on whether or not the gun was loaded. Actually, you never hear a reporter say that somebody was threatened with an "unloaded" gun.

So I really think as I'm asking this, the question is answering itself. I think to the untrained ear it sounds much more dramatic and scary to say that somebody was threatened with a loaded gun or that the criminal was caught with a loaded gun or that a loaded gun was found in the car then it would be to just say a gun was found in the car

In a word:

"Script".

People watch these shows for the drama. Therefore scriptwriters ensure there's plenty of drama to be had.

The same applies whether it's a show like Blue Bloods or a news cast. Drama sells, therefore drama is written in.

 

[Robert]

Hollywood is make believe and has a long history of not understanding the world around them or how it works in real life.