Despite the underlying message of sensible gun reform and gun control laws, the episode still found time to make a relatively valid case for (responsible) gun ownership and used Rene as a proxy to convey that message.
Tonight’s episode of Arrow also deserves special credit for the way in which it took a relatively even-handed approach towards the issues it tackled.
The episode had a clear agenda, but it handled that agenda in a diplomatic way.
There’s no discussing “Spectre of the Gun” without addressing the elephant in the room: this was an episode aimed squarely at the highly polarized matter of gun control and gun violence.