Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-26247132-20150619234121/@comment-26247132-20150621020255

2) It's the way he went about it, assuming the ways of the Ark would automatically apply on the ground. Clarke at least knew when to back off and try persuasion instead. She also didn't try to apply the same strict rules of the Ark to the Delinquents on the ground; she even tells Bellamy later on that they will make the rules together.

"And Wells...just wanted the Delinquents to do what they were sent down to Earth to do: Survive." More specifically, he wanted them to do it how the Ark wanted them to do it. I sided with Bellamy in this argument: why do what your oppressors want you to do?

3) You can trust very few people in an apocalypse so lack of trust is too broad a reason for taking someone's weapon. Yeah, I know about Bellamy's hesitation with saving Clarke but that's beside the point. Bellamy didn't shoot Wells when he could have and he didn't let Clarke die when he could have. And when Clarke calls for Bellamy's gun, Bellamy reaches for it so, yes, I think Bellamy would have stayed and shot the jaguar dead if he still had his gun on him. He's done similar actions a million other times throughout the series so it's entirely in character with him. He also would have been a better shot because at least he was trained on firing weapons when he was a cadet.