>>89948748>But he also had an anti-gun arc on Robin, even though he's an NRA member.I remember that arc - in context tho, there was still a conservative bent to the story.
Tim's friend started bringing a gun to school only because he wanted to "defend himself" from stereotypical street hoodlum negros who'd transferred into their idyllic suburban white high school, and at no point does Tim call him out on being a racist reactionary - he's just worried that if his friend flashes his piece, then HE'LL get shot, and of course that's exactly what happened because of COURSE the black kid had a gun too.
AND Tim's solution to the problem isn't to tell a teacher, the cops or even Batman - no, he, as any good conservative red-blooded All-American boy would, asks his father for advice, who decides "Well since his dad gave him the gun it's alright, I'll discuss it man to man with him."
And then that dad is, again, presented sympathetically as not someone disturbed enough by the sight of brown people to arm his hormonal idiot kid with lethal force, but as just another poor, confused, shell-shocked white man trying his darnedest to protect his poor white family from the vague, non-specific problems plaguing society (i.e. more darkies in the schools). Ultimately, he at least makes the sensible decision of taking back the gun, but it's hard to go take-backsies when your stupid kid has already gotten his /k/-boner on, so he brought ANOTHER gun to school and got shot...
...and then the very next issue has Robin on a righteous quest for revengeance on his killer, and the story is framed as him avenging a tragic death, not "Boy, it sure sucks that one idiot hated blacks so much he decided to pull a fucking gun on one for looking at him wrong"
