Not everything is about Oliver - Slade becoming a monster means then Starling City was going to suffer as well. But it's surprisingly Laurel who shakes him out of his delusions, not with some emotional plea but rather by opening Oliver's eyes to the fact that Slade, now armed with a Mirakuru army, isn't just going to just stop the violence after he kills Oliver. How do you follow up something so heartbreaking, gutting, shocking, and world-shaking as Moira's murder? With an hour like "City of Blood." Oliver's a broken man for much of the episode, to the point where he's ready to surrender himself to Slade Wilson. That being said, we're still waiting to find out what Star City's new gun laws actually were. Sure, the dialogue sounded a bit talking point-y, but the script was smart enough to recognize that this is an issue that Green Arrow can't solve and it's hard not to respect the show's willingness to at least engage with the topic. Midway through the show's fifth season, though, Arrow tried channeling the spirit of classic Green Arrow comics by tackling American's gun problem in "Specter of the Gun," a very sweaty hour in which the characters debate the issue after someone attacking city hall with an assault rifle. In bringing him to the small screen, Arrow sanded down that part of the character's personality a bit, even though there are still hints of it in his crusade against the one percent in season 1 and whenever the drug Vertigo comes up. In the late '60s and early '70s, Green Arrow became known as a social justice warrior, confronting relevant social and political issues in the pages of his comics.
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