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Why The Emphasis On Weather Or Not The Gun Is "LOADED"?

HansGruber said:
Here’s a fun thing—at least in MN:

You point a firearm at someone, it’s considered using lethal force.

Doesn’t matter if it’s loaded or not (or loaded with those stupid “less lethal” rounds like rubber buckshot).

Which, imho, is how it should be.
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A childhood friend of mine robbed a party store using a bb gun that looked similar to a 1911. Brain that he was, he robbed the store a few miles from our houses where the owner knew him for years.

He was convicted as a minor and sent to Iiona for several years for using a deadly weapon. If the old man had died he would have been charged with murder.

He was both stupid and lucky.
 
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There's a point I'm trying to make but I'm not sure how to connect my original post to what I'm trying to say in this one.

I read this in an NRA magazine, whichever one was focused specifically on the Second Amendment.

In the late fifties or mid sixties someone in Hollywood decided to make the Motion Picture Industry an agent for societal change.

That's when we started seeing episodes in which a character decides to try smoking and eventually decides it's not for him and that he's going to be his own man and not smoke.(Greg Brady)

The episode of Happy Days when Fonzie got glasses and proved wearing glasses can be cool.

They started introducing Gay and Trans characters on television shows.

And they started changing the way firearms were portrayed.

There never was a Private Citizen on Adam-12 who carried a firearm of any kind who wasn't incompetent or in violation of the law (The Buff/The Chaser). I don't remember the episode but the guy that ran out of his house with a hunting rifle and either shot somebody or shot at somebody and I think almost hit Reed.

According to the NRA there was even some committee in Hollywood that decided that going forward private citizens would never be shown as competent to handle firearms.

A common plot point became that somebody would try to burglarize the house. The head of the household bought a gun for self-defense and by the end of the show he would panic at almost kill one of his kids or his wife and decide that maybe he shouldn't have a gun in his house at all.

I said this before but even in the later seasons of Family Matters Carl Winslow was never shown wearing a duty belt or a gun. In Third Watch Colby Bell who played officer Ty Davis Jr was shown more than once getting home from work and unloading his duty gun and locking it up.

I'm not sure how to make the connection but I'm absolutely positive that when the writers have Abigail Baker emphasizing that a firearm was loaded it's part of the same thing.
 
There is an argument for reporting a loaded gun when found in a vehicle. It’s illegal in many cases to transport a loaded weapon. I travel a fair amount and make a point to know the rules. For instance I have acquired a couple 10 rd mags for travel purposes, I don’t bring an AR on most road trips. They are things I just don’t want to explain.
 
Hertervillian said:
There is an argument for reporting a loaded gun when found in a vehicle. It’s illegal in many cases to transport a loaded weapon. I travel a fair amount and make a point to know the rules. For instance I have acquired a couple 10 rd mags for travel purposes, I don’t bring an AR on most road trips. They are things I just don’t want to explain.
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So they report the gun is loaded but fail to mention that the person carrying it was a convicted felon and prohibited from carrying guns anyway?
 
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