Guns are canon in the pokemon universe. How come Jesse and James don't just use guns to steal pokemon instead of Wile E Coyote tier traps?

They'd mistakenly shoot their own invention every single time.

>>57971528 (OP)
Do you think if you use a gun to shoot a Pokemon to weaken it as part of its capture that it'll still bond with you and respect you? I feel like the idea of ownership and obedience can quickly get sickening as you introduce more adult elements, which is why Pokemon has to stay kid/family-friendly. They try to have more mature stories and themes sometimes but they can't go too into it, hence having to go copout with the cartoonishly evil Ghetsis character in BW.

>>57971528 (OP)
I don't usually say it but Ash's green gloves are so garish good lord.

>>57971528 (OP)
Giovanni is a big Batman fan

>>57971528 (OP)
guns are ineffective against a lot of pokemon

>>57971528 (OP)
Steel, Ghost, Rock and maybe Dragon would be pretty much inmune to bullets.

Flying types too fast for the average joe with a gun

Bug, Grass and Poison types could theoretically deal with the gunman without him noticing too

>>57971545
Mons end up sustaining far worse injuries than mere gunshots in regular battles, and they just walk it off fine
And besides there's already enough bullet-like moves for there to be a category recognized by game mechanics, so the only real difference would be whether it's a device (usually) held by a human that launches the projectile, or a pokemon launching the projectile

Also if you actually played the games, you'd know that having a pokemon of your own attack the wild mon you want to capture is **NOT** a strictly required part of the capture process