I was watching some X-men video on YouTube and it occured to me that Superheroes are the embodiment of the good guy with a gun mentality. But leftist seem to love heroes but hate firearms. I did a Google search and plenty of others have made the same connection. Wondering what the board thinks about it?
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Superpowers are often likened to gun ownership.
My Hero Academia goes into this mindset with the villain-hero conversation in the mall, how everyone with a power goes about idly, when at any moment, one could go off the deep end, no regulations, no controls. (But they don't because they live in a high-trust society).
Marvel had the whole "mutant registry" thing, AND the semi-related Civil War whole thing, and both are clearly blatant allegories to gun registries.
So the writers of the comics are definitely aware they're spreading "good guy with a gun" messages.