In the early 1980s, Gunter got into a confrontation on the House floor with his fellow Democrat Shady R. Wall of West Monroe. In a fit of rage, the flamboyant Wall attempted to pull out a pistol from a boot holster. He was stopped by the sergeant-at-arms and Representative John C. Ensminger of Monroe from harming Gunter or any other colleague. Gunter was visibly shaken. When Representative Ron Gomez of Lafayette told him that Wall did not mean to harm him, Gunter replied with tears in his eyes, "It ain't all right. Nobody pulls a gun on me and gets away with it."