Why didn't Peggs like to shoot guns before?

**StepLaugh** · Jan 27th, 2011, 05:03 AM

Did she have a bad experience?

They haven't said why yet, right?

**Hollomandious** · Jan 27th, 2011, 03:32 PM

Originally Posted by StepLaugh

Did she have a bad experience?

They haven't said why yet, right?

She's a dirty hippy. That's why.

**Wicked Sid** · Jan 27th, 2011, 04:20 PM

Maybe she saw her parents murdered, by guns. Her inner turmoil after killing Latch could be a revival of repressed feelings of the trauma.

**StepLaugh** · Jan 27th, 2011, 05:09 PM

That's kinda what i'm thinking. Also do you think that's what she's telling Lizzy?

**Ra1th** · Jan 28th, 2011, 06:58 PM

Originally Posted by Wicked Sid

Maybe she saw her parents murdered, by guns. Her inner turmoil after killing Latch could be a revival of repressed feelings of the trauma.

after seeing her parents killed, she went into training for years, she then put on a bat costume and began cleansing Gotham of all criminal activity with just her fists and batarangs bwahhahahahaa

sorry couldnt resist

but in all seriousness, i think the opportunity for the story to explain why she has issues with guns may have been missed. because she seems to have no problem shooting zombies now, and although she took some emotional stress from killing latch, its not abnormal for someone to feel that way after killing a human being. i doubt the soldiers would feel much, but Pegs is a civilian, and a fragile one at that. maybe it was just simply cause she didnt believe in guns and violence?

**shananala8** · Jan 29th, 2011, 02:05 AM

yeah, I have to agree that she probably just didnt like guns and violence and so the act of killing another person really shook her. I mean, look at the troops who come home with PTSD and the police who go to therapy after using their guns in the line of duty. Those people are trained to do that and it still gets to them. I think Pegs' "issues" with guns and violence may be an acknowledgement by the geniuses behind the show that not everyone can just pick up a gun and start blasting away with no ill effects. Not everyone is made for violence, and with the quality of the characters in the show, it makes a lot of sense to have at least one character who addresses this point.

**StepLaugh** · Jan 29th, 2011, 09:00 AM

So...pegs is....batman.

I thought I was batman.

Well since she is having these dreams it might come up soon why she doesn't like gun/violence. I'm thinking if she she's micheal at all anymore, they might have some heart to heart.