Devils advocate: Movies, and now games, are also the primary way that previously obscure weapons become popularized with the kind of people who misuse them.
It's not a new thing. The book The Jungle in around 1906 was the reason the FDA was created. Industrial food production was still relatively new so most people who read the book believed that most packaged food had dead rats and human fingers cooked into it
Devils advocate: Movies, and now games, are also the primary way that previously obscure weapons become popularized with the kind of people who misuse them.
It's not a new thing. The book The Jungle in around 1906 was the reason the FDA was created. Industrial food production was still relatively new so most people who read the book believed that most packaged food had dead rats and human fingers cooked into it