Arnie already had the guns and ammo and it wasn't like the owner could stop him from walking out, not even with a phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range.
So, what gives? Why did Arnie shoot the gun shop owner?
Shall we play a game?
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The T-800 could have easily just walked out with the guns (even if the clerk decided to take a shot at him) but if the clerk were left alive, he could had called the cops and reported that some guy just took stole a sh*tload of guns and ammo.
Since the T-800 is an infiltration unit, it would have made for a big headache to have a bunch of cops chasing after him & endangering his mission before his mission even got started...
Why he didn't just quietly crush the cashiers skull, I'm sure I don't know.
Mother is the name for God on the lips & hearts of all children -Eric D. Raven
You made a good point. Why make a lot of noise by shooting a gun when he could have crushed the cashier's throat with a tiger mouth strike.
shareUm, because the Terminator had no money to pay for those guns??
shareI thought about it but I suspect it would just be easier for the Terminator not to have the police and any obstacles in his way so early on.
shareTo prove Terminator is a better movie than Gremlins
shareMaybe the Terminator only intended to load the weapon, and taking out the clerk was improvised.
shareSo the gun shop owner couldn't identify him if the police showed up.
shareI think a better question is, why did it bother to say "wrong", if he was just going ot murder the clerk anyway? That response had barely time to register before the clerk died.
Why waste time and resources practicing idle chit chat that in no way advances his mission, and which will also be completely wasted, since the only recipient of his utterance immediately dies.
It makes no sense that a murder machine of this type would say 'wrong' in that situation.
It's a good point, though, that it should've used some silent method of murdering the clerk.
I'll tell you why. Because it's cool!
shareSimple reason, the terminator had no money to pay for all the guns or not nearly enough, not to mention had no other needed credentials to make a firearms purchase. Wait, this is America, there probably is no other credentials needed lol, just money. But even if the terminator somehow had the money, do you think he would lower himself to show any respect for humans? There only his enemies from the future and now in the past. After all, the terminator remember was devoid of any emotion being a machine. His simple priority was to kill Sarah Connor and anything or anyone who got in the way.
shareUh no, to buy any gun there is a background check attached to it whether it's through your pistol purchase permit (must be done through the Sheriffs Office) or you Conceal Carry Permit.
Our joke of a former President Obama actually got in front of a camera and lied his ass off saying that you can order an automatic weapon online with no background check. That is so far from the truth it isn't even funny, there is a very extensive background check through the ATF that takes up to a year for an automatic weapon or a suppressor.
Yes, thats why he didn't shoot the guy on the phone. He just tossed him aside so he can look up the address's of the Sarah Connors
shareI'd watch THAT movie..
The Terminator working some temp job to earn money, then uses that money to buy the guns, then waits 15 days to get them, THEN goes on his rampage.
Not a very good 'infiltration unit', though.. and I still can't over the 'bad breath, everything'. Can you imagine Skynet designing this machine and their chief engineer robots being like "No, something's missing, it's not quite human enough.. we need this machine to get through the door so it can start immediately blasting everyone in sight and then shoot the dogs, too, so .. I got it! It has to have BAD BREATH to be able to do that!"
How the #!@&% would Skynet _EVER_ even consider a thing like 'bad breath'? Is that essential to fooling people that it's not a machine?
"You look human, you sound human, you wear clothes like human, you move like human, you have impeccable haircut, like a human, you sweat like a human... but wait! You don't have BAD BREATH, you can't be a human!!!1"
Has THIS situation _ever_ happened to a terminator? I get it if the skin looks rubbery, but is sweat and bad breath really an essential combo to make it an efficient infiltration unit?
Especially when you consider how little he actually 'inflitrates' and how much he just terminates anything in sight and doesn't even try to ever blend in, and to top it all, is a HUGE AUSTRIAN-LOOKING BODYBUILDER TYPE, why is 'bad breath' or 'sweat' EVER something to consider??
Maybe if it was ACTUALLY doing proper infiltration and interacting with people A LOT, and drinking coffee and then people wondering why his breath doesn't stink.. but really, have you ever thought someone is not human just because their breath doesn't smell or they are not sweating? (In normal situations, people don't generally sweat, unless you live in some hot place of course)
Answer to OP: Because it was a badass scene. Period.
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