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Joined: Mar 2006
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Why would Fredo carry a gun?
Probably so that he could drop it in one scene, thereby revealing character.
Again, though, there's a sort of a bleed-out from the novel. The Freddy character there is a gangster. There's no reason to think him a screwup or an outsider until he falls apart upon seeing his father gunned down. So the Freddy novel guy would have a gun.
"All of these men were good listeners; patient men."