I've gotten hours and hours of entertainment from that site. And that's just using the Random button.

The cocking the gun out of anger thing is pretty funny, though. It's like we're supposed to say, "Oh boy! Stuff just got real!"

By the way, making a movie where someone is firing a gun that is visibly out of bullets or a gun with no magazine makes you an instant Trump fan club member, no exceptions.

The finger is close to the trigger, but not on it where one might have an accidental discharge.

At least that's how I always figured it. Don't know what TV Tropes is.

Never finger the trigger until you're ready to fire; never point a gun at anything you don't intend to shoot.

And it's not even LEOs in the movies. It's average characters in hostile scenes, when an accidental discharge would be the least of their worries.

It looks more accurate in movies if you do it like the pros do in real life.

On a revolver the gun can be cocked by either pulling the trigger back until there is a distinct click (double action) or by pulling the hammer back until there is a distinct click (single action). Either way when you here the click all it will take is a bit of trigger pressure and the gun will fire...

Prior to that moment, they're waving around an inert hunk of metal, seemingly for no other reason than to give the victim (or opponent) plenty of time to disarm them.

It's a lazy narrative gimmick by which writers are trying to convey an "it's serious now" vibe.

episode of yelling, gun-waving, and threatening...