Very true. I suppose the force of his alter-ego's personality overshadows his own in other people's mind (like mine). But your right, the incidents I've read about where guns and/or violence were involved seldom stemmed from a conflict, though I seem to remember him bringing along a can of Mace to the Kentucky Derby, and he seemed like he had no compunctions against using on whoever gave him static (though in that piece, the only person he claimed to have maced was a waiter at a restaurant).

>Then again, he didn't live in a world controlled by lawless
>megacorporations with absolutely no regard for the value of human
>life...
>
>... did he?
>
>--G.

Just from the Starkwire posts, call me crazy, but Stark is beginning to have this Kolchak the Nightstalker* flavor to him, except instead of pursuing the supernatural, he's trying to expose GENOM for the threat it is...and everybody thinks he's nuts.

*All my knowledge of Kolchak is at best second hand, having not watched either the original series, or ABC's failed revamp.