I think it would have worked better if they'd just had two or three characters arguing with each other about gun control throughout the episode without building the ENTIRE episode around it.

I'm pretty sure I remember Diggle and Laurel having some scenes like that in Season 4, though, and nothing romantic came of it.

When has Oliver not been stupid about everything in his personal life?

On the one hand, it's good to see China White return. On the other hand, I have a suspicion that they did that just so they could have the Blonde Brunette Redhead thing going on.

He seems to think that, after their rocky start, she's come to genuinely care about him and wouldn't do something to hurt him.

Haven't almost all of them been shot at one point or another, though?

"And this is for shooting down police helicopters."
"I don't need anything like that . . . yet."

See, I just assume that Felicity occasionally hacks into the bank accounts of white collar criminals and transfers some funds into her own account.

I figured the Nazis all assumed Jax was a servant and Amaya was some sort of prostitute. While the Nazis were certainly racist against black people, it wasn't to the insane extent they had against some other ethnic groups.

Well, there's the fact that, depending on the circumstances, if you go AWOL, other soldiers might die because you weren't where you were supposed to be doing what you were supposed to do.

And earthquake machine violence . . .

It IS possible to believe that something should be illegal without believing there's necessarily anything wrong with breaking said law. Team Arrow presumably believes that, as a general rule, things like assault, breaking-and-entering, and computer hacking should be illegal, even though they freely engage in those…

Question: have they actually confirmed that Laurel's mom's maiden name was Drake, or did we all just assume that because she's a Dinah who married a Lance that she must be Dinah Drake?

What rule is it against, exactly? If they were harassing the girls in question, that would be against the rules, but if they're just talking among themselves, comparing notes about who they have and haven't had sex with, I'm not sure what sort of school regulation would forbid that.

I don't know about that. In the past she's often been very frustrated whenever her teammates are arguing with each other, so it made sense to me that she'd try to shut this one down before it could get started.

Felicity did have an opinion: her opinion was that people who work together shouldn't discuss politics.

Nah, Diggle is basically everyone's older brother.

So, based on Rene's flashbacks, he was having that chat with social services on the SAME NIGHT that Star City was almost destroyed by a nuclear missile, and the world came close to ending in nuclear armageddon? What social worker is still at the office during something like that?

She did seduce Oliver, thus getting to see him shirtless and confirm the Bratva tattoo on his chest.

Though the Horror round of CharDee MacDennis was all Frank.