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Jamie is not genre-savvy. He does not know that he is in a comic strip, he does not know that he is a main character, and he does not know that being held up multiple times with the same gun is his creator's idea of a running gag. It is an entirely illogical, irrational assumption that this would be the same gun. Glock nines are common.


And yet...



By the way - and I can't believe I'm typing this - DO NOT DO THIS.

I don't care what nifty trick you saw in an action movie. I don't care what the self defense video on Youtube claims you can do. I don't care how fast you think you are.

Always assume a gun is functional. Always assume a gun is loaded. Always assume a gun has a round in the chamber. Always assume a gun can go off at any time, for any reason. Always assume that if a gun goes off in your vicinity, especially if it's not being held normally, especially in a confined space, that it will hit you and it will kill you. That is gun safety 101.

By the same token, always assume that someone carrying a gun is going to shoot you. Maybe they think you murdered their son. Maybe they think you're a crazy racist serial killer. Maybe they believe you're a space alien or a demon in human form. It doesn't matter. If someone you don't know has a gun, assume that they can and will shoot you with it for any or no reason.

This is a particularly practical assumption to make if that person is pointing the gun directly at your torso.

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(Monday morning, INT: hospital room.)

RoK: The driver's license you mentioned... was that Richard's?
JH: Mm. Maybe all guns are looking the same to me, but... that's a Glock nine, right? Did you by any chance happen to buy it from James Kowalski, of forty-seven Lancaster avenue?
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RoK: How did-
JH: Did you get a new firing pin for it?
RoK: What are you talking abou-
JH: Eh, what the hell, we're already in a hospital anyway.
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[JH lunges forward, faking a strike with his right hand, pushes the slide back with his left, and twists the gun out of RoK's grasp]
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JH (holding the gun upside down): Wow, I am not as fast as I thought I was. You pulled that trigger, like, three times.
RoK (clutching his hand): What the hell's the matter with you?