Not getting political but...this is like the movie cliche that American gun owners are all fat, redneck/hillbilly types and always unsophisticated. Or anyone who is wary of their government is always paranoid, not just healthy skepticism but a straight up "everything's a conspiracy" type. No middle ground for any of it.
Oh, and in horror movies, anyone who has/finds a weapon or shows any type of confidence/competence with said item is quickly killed or shown they are anything BUT proficient with it...yea I know, it would be a short movie if someone had a concealed carry weapon but I digress lol
It's been mentioned before in this thread but it bothers me so much that I think it can't be said often enough.
It wouldn't bother me so much if I didn't encounter so many people who actually believe this was predominantly true.
That gun owners are characteristically:
1. paranoid - to the degree that they lack common sense and see everything as a potential threat
2. psychologically insecure -
2. irresponsible - parking illegally, flicking cigarette butts into dry brush
3. amoral - blasé about taking life
4. male -
5. obese/unshaven/slovenly/alcoholic -
6. uneducated -
7. gullible - first one dumb enough to get killed by the monster/alien
8. impulsive - pulling a gun whenever he's startled by a sound
9. hot-tempered - pulling a gun if someone insults his intelligence (which is characteristically lacking)
10. irrational - can't understand that the monster/alien is, not only impervious to firearms, but that it came in peace (until shot at)
11. are bigots
12. are racists
13. are sadists
14. sexually impotent - why else would he need a gun if he isn't compensating for something?
15. drives a huge pickup truck (see 14.)
16. wields an impractically large firearm for personal defense
17. cowardly - is the first to abandon the party in the interest of self-preservation. He's usually the guy who shuts the door leaving everyone else to face the monster/alien. Of course he gets killed anyway (see rule 7.) - often because he finds he's locked himself in with the threat. In true cowardly fashion he screams hysterically and dies with less dignity than any other victim.