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* Another example would be 4x18 \"Shooting Star\" where they had a school shooting... but the gun going off was all accidental and didn\'t hurt anyone, and a teacher covered for the student at fault. So there were no actual consequences for the student who brought a gun to school and caused gunshots and terrified the entire student body and faculty. Many reviews of the episode claimed the message was lost by the end, or it was a failure, or it could\'ve been much better, etc.
What happens in the episode is that the students are in a club meeting and they hear a gun go off in the school, and all of the students and teachers freak out and go into emergency mode. They\'re all \'\'really scared\'\', obviously, and the direction actually shows that well. So, no one was hurt, and they don\'t know where the gun came from, and everyone\'s scared over that for a while. Then Sue - the mean gym teacher who\'s JerkWithAHeartOfGold side is that she cares for this student with Downs syndrome, because her sister had that - confesses to having the gun, and says she had a permit and it went off by accident (I think she might have been fired for it, or something?) But the main teacher confronts her about it, because he knows she wouldn\'t confess if it were true. And she says that actually, the student she cares about brought the gun, because she heard some adults (might have been her parents, I forgot) talking about how guns are necessary to protect yourself, and she thought she could protect herself from bullies with it.
This is one of the few things Glee did decently - all of the rest of the examples on the page are accurate. Whoever posted that example is completely missing the point - the world is more than just crazy shooters; the gun rhetoric is dangerous in more ways than the obvious ones; I don\'t know what their problem is with there not being any casualties - I hope they don\'t think that that implies that real-world shootings don\'t have casualties, because it obviously doesn\'t. And should there have been consequences for the student who really didn\'t know any better? I don\'t know enough about Downs syndrome to say whether it\'s an accurate portrayal or not (It\'s probably about as accurate as Glee is about their other pet cause, which is, \'\'not at all\'\'), but as the character is written, she didn\'t know any better - like plenty of real-life situations where ~6-year-olds get a hold of their families\' guns - but the school board would not have been sympathetic. It\'s actually probably the only time where Sue\'s feelings on the issue weren\'t just glurge. This is the only time when the show managed to be nuanced about anything.
But I don\'t just want to remove the post because someone will just add it again, and counter-arguments are just considered natter, so I\'ll just leave this here.
What happens in the episode is that the students are in a club meeting and they hear a gun go off in the school, and all of the students and teachers freak out and go into emergency mode. They\'re all \'\'really scared\'\', obviously, and the direction actually shows that well. So, no one was hurt, and they don\'t know where the gun came from, and everyone\'s scared over that for a while. Then Sue - the mean gym teacher who\'s JerkWithAHeartOfGold side is that she cares for this student with Downs syndrome, because her sister had that - confesses to having the gun, and says she had a permit and it went off by accident (I think she might have been fired for it, or something?) But the main teacher confronts her about it, because he knows she wouldn\'t confess if it were true. And she says that actually, the student she cares about brought the gun, because she heard some adults (might have been her parents, I forgot) talking about how guns are necessary to protect yourself, and she thought she could protect herself from bullies with it.
This is one of the few things Glee did decently - all of the rest of the examples on the page are accurate. Whoever posted that example is completely missing the point - the world is more than just crazy shooters; the gun rhetoric is dangerous in more ways than the obvious ones; I don\'t know what their problem is with there not being any casualties - I hope they don\'t think that that implies that real-world shootings don\'t have casualties, because it obviously doesn\'t. And should there have been consequences for the student who really didn\'t know any better? I don\'t know enough about Downs syndrome to say whether it\'s an accurate portrayal or not (It\'s probably about as accurate as Glee is about their other pet cause, which is, \'\'not at all\'\'), but as the character is written, she didn\'t know any better - like plenty of real-life situations where ~6-year-olds get a hold of their families\' guns - but the school board would not have been sympathetic. It\'s actually probably the only time where Sue\'s feelings on the issue weren\'t just glurge. This is the only time when the show managed to be nuanced about anything.
But I don\'t just want to remove the post because someone will just add it again, and counter-arguments are just considered natter, so I\'ll just leave this here.
