Why The Bold Type devoted an episode to guns

Variety

“It’s not easy to tell a story about guns, especially right now,” showrunner Amanda Lasher said of Tuesday's episode. Lasher, a member of the group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, said she and her writers wanted to take the gun debate from the political realm into the personal. “When we first started talking about it, literally every single person in the writers’ room and with the Freeform executives I talked to and NBCUniversal — everyone had a story about, ‘Oh yeah, I found out when I was dating my boyfriend that he had a gun and I won’t let him keep it in the house,'” says Lasher, adding: “We felt really strongly about normalizing those conversations about gun ownership and taking it out of the political so we could make progress on this issue. And as long as we stuck with our guiding light by doing it through the lens of the friendship and the girls’ experience, we thought we would be OK.”