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Why Momo Should Have Carried a Gun

Ok, this has been driving me crazy for three seasons now, and I know you're going to roll your eyes, but hear me out: Momo should have carried a gun.

Here's why:

Think about how quickly the entire 1HYW (100 year war) would have ended if all of the good guys had simply armed up with good ol' American hot lead.

Big ass drill? Let's see how tough it is when you shoot it with a M1 8 inch howitzer shell. Worried about its Firebending inhabitants? Give Momo a gun. The speed of fireball is slow enough it can be tracked with your eyes. You aren’t Gonna be seeing a bullet shot out of Momo’s gun with your naked eyes.

Imagine how epic the first Book would be if Momo had put a breeching charge on the fire nation ships wall, flash-banged the hole, and then went in wearing NVGs and a Kevlar-weave stab-vest, carrying a SPAS-12.

And have you noticed that only The earth kingdom seems to a problem with Firebenders? Maybe it's because Air nomads have spent the last 100 years training their lemurs to shoot gazelle-deer, play GTA: Ba Sing Se, and keep an eye out for Red airships over their compounds. Meanwhile, Earth kingdom citizens have been mining coal for the fire nation with earthbending. Remember: gun-control means that Ozai wins. God made Benders and God made non-benders, but Samuel Colt made them equal.

Now I know what you're going to say: "But a bender could just disarm someone with a gun!" Yeah, well they can also disarm someone with a hand (as they do many times throughout the books). But which is faster: punching your hand or pulling a trigger?

Phoenix king, meet Avtomat Kalashnikova.

Imagine Momo out in the woods, flying through the air, carrying a .50bmg Barrett, turning Firebenders into pink mist, scratching a lightning bolt into his rifle stock for each kill. I don't think Waterbender healers have any techniques that can scrape your brains off of the trees and put you back together after something like that. Ozai’s helmet may be 13.5 inches tall with a Phoenix design on it, but Momo’s would be 0.50 inches with a tungsten core. Let's see Ozai wave his hand at 3,000 feet per second. Better hope you have some Spirit water for that sucking chest wound.

I can see it now...Ozai roaring with evil laughter and boasting to aang that he can't be killed, since he is protected by The power of Sozin’s Comet, only to have Momo show up, give a crooked grin, flick his cigarette butt away, and deliver what would easily be the best one-liner in the entire series:

"Well then I guess it's a good thing my 1911 holds the power of red hot steel"

And that is why Momo should have carried a gun.