I hope you're right, Errata. But you don't need a gun or a knife to hurt someone. He's already shown he's more than willing to use a car. On the plus side, a car can be stopped fairly quickly by a cop who knows what he/she is doing.
I do take an idiot with a gun seriously. I recall a quote, so I'll paraphrase it : "I do not fear the world's greatest swordsman. I fear the world's worst swordsman, because there's no telling what that crazy bastard will do."
As for his funny ideas...well...At least we won't have to concern ourselves with him spreading his genes. I don't like the wiki either.
Well, guns are a bit different than swords. A sword or knife still lets you do serious damage if you clumsily swing and stab at random, just because of the design. With a gun, though, it takes a lot of skill. Police officers have notoriously lax training (I've seen the training regimen myself, and I know dozens of CIVILIAN shooters who are more practiced than them), which is why you usually see hit ratios in the realm of 30% even against targets who are still and not shooting back; most of their training goes toward making them able to draw, shoot, and reload on instinct. Gangbangers tend to be even worse since they (like Chris will) don't have the proper form and just kinda spray randomly.
First off, Chris would need to actually GET a gun. Contrary to the opinion of the South and America in general, someone like Chris will be scrutinized walking into a gun store much in the way that a small child would. Any shop owner, no matter how virulently supportive of the Second Amendment, would refuse a sale to him because he's very clearly mentally incompetent and a bigger danger to himself and others than the targets. He frankly looks like the guy who would muzzle sweep everyone in the store or even practice aiming by pointing the gun at the clerk, then start trying to load his gun up and shove it down the front of his pants before he's even out the front door. So he'd need to seek out a black market dealer; even if he knew where to find one, he'd still need cash. AND a dealer who's willing to sell to a guy who looks like he'll accidentally shoot the dude who just sold him the weapon.
So then he'd need to figure out how to load the thing. I'd be surprised if his buttery mitts could get a single cartridge in a magazine (you know he'd go for the cheapest gun possible, like a Raven Arms .25 or one of the many identical copies from the rest of the Ring of Fire like Lorcin and Phoenix; if he were lucky, a cheapo .22 revolver). Assuming he managed to get his gun loaded, he'd inevitably keep his finger on the trigger 24/7 and forget the safety regularly, and promptly put a hole in his wall or TV.
He wouldn't bother buying a proper holster, so he'd just stuff the gun in his pocket or waistband (or maybe his Tomgirl purse) and shoot himself in the leg.
And assuming he finally gets a loaded gun, he'd show up to see Michael Snyder in the parking lot, draw, and dump the entire magazine into the storefront behind him. Tons of collateral damage, but fails to hit anything (except maybe some unfortunate children in the building). The cops show up and ventilate him.
Nah, a car or blade is the best solution for him. It takes much less effort to jab a knife in a guy, or smash him with a car. Hell, Chris did it just last year!
