I finally watched A Knock at the Cabin.

Just like almost everybody else, I don't find M. Night Shyamalan anywhere near consistent enough to spend good money and time anymore.

I've gotta say, this was pretty good.

Now, here is one gripe that will contain a spoiler...

So, just like most Shyamalan movies, this is set in Pennsylvania, which isn't exactly a gun friendly state.

The two main characters are a well to do gay couple. Given the demographics, you could get that they're probably Democrats.

It was established in the movie that neither man was a gun owner until one was the victim of a violent, homophobic attack.

The person who was attacked, and bought the gun for self-defense, is also established as a criminal prosecutor. So, especially now that Pennsylvania actually has its highest murder rate ever, including the early 90s, this is probably a guy who has to deal with the horrible details of violent crime every day.

Still, okay, maybe he's a blue state lefty, and since he's a lawyer, he follows certain principles that people on his side support even if they don't make sense. Maybe since they were going to the cabin, just as a family, and didn't expect anybody to be there for miles, he figured that leaving the gun in a locked box in the car was prudent.

So, alright, I don't leave a gun in my car. My carry guns are either loaded on my person, or they're at home. If I am transporting gun in my car, I've got a locked box that's built like a tank. Still, I can get why somebody who is newer to guns and isn't as experienced may leave the gun in his car, in a box, and leave it unloaded.

What I don't buy is the fact that the guy also kept the magazine unloaded.

If you've been a victim of an unprovoked, violent crime to which you had no time to defend yourself, and your response was to buy a gun for personal protection, that's just dumb.

It's one thing to think that you'll have time, in the event of another violent attack, to open the locking case, pop in a loaded mag, rack the slide, and be ready to fire before the knife weilding maniac managed to stab you a few dozen times. To think that you'd have time to thumb a bunch of rounds into a mag while somebody is imminently threatening you with a weapon is just dumb.

Nobody who has ever operated a semi-auotmatic pistol thinks that he or she can make do, in an imminent life or death situation, with an empty gun and an empty mag with bullets kept separate.

The funny thing is, I kinda want everyone who thinks that laws about gun and ammunition storage, and keeping the guns and ammo locked and separate at all times, are a good idea, to watch this movie.

Maybe Shyamalan decided to have this character be this dumb just so he could create another obstacle for the protagonists, prolong the "suspense" of the scene, and have a bit more violence. But, I just wanna show that scene to everyone I know who is anti-gun, and ask them how many times our protagonist wouldn't have been stabbed had he just kept the mag loaded. How many times would our protagonist not have been stabbed had he kept the gun loaded?

How many times would our protagonist and his partner not been subjected to assault and battery had he had the gun loaded, with a round in the chamber, and kept it holstered on his waist band?

It's actually a bit of an unintentionally funny side plot to this movie that the good guys follow all the "gun safety" stuff that anti-gun people parrot with the exception of the fact that they have a gun in he first place, and everything gets worse for them because they followed these "common sense" rules.