system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Terminator 1] Why does the T-800 even bother to ask the gun store owner questions just to kill him later? Why didn’t the T-800 just kill him as soon as he walked inside the gun store?
gpt
Terminator's are infiltrators. It draws a lot more attention/retaliation to shoot a man in broad daylight and then spend several minutes perusing his stock while police are being called. Police can't stop him but they can make his mission more difficult. Once the store owner has helpfully retrieved all of the weapons you need into a convenient pile with appropriate ammo and confirmed that there are no 40 Watt plasma cannons hidden in the back THEN kill him.