If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.

Make the audience wonder what's going on by putting them in the same position as the protagonist.

Storytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others.

The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so: and his right to do so is guaranteed by the Constitution.

Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?"

All rhetorical questions are accusations.

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.