Lubin says the trend of emphasizing the gun over the hero seems to have started around the time of the Vietnam War. He theorizes that as men felt their power increasingly challenged by various social movements, they began to glorify firearms as a symbol of their past dominance. Simple Still, while he acknowledges the portrayal of guns in popular culture has changed, Lubin warns against drawing a direct link between those portrayals and actual violence. He points out that most people are able to distinguish between fantasy and reality, and that media portrayals can also have the effect of deterring violence by causing empathy in the viewer. They think that if a child sees someone shooting on TV that equates to them becoming violent.
People are so much more complex than that.
Society is so much more complex than that. R Y A look back reveals that guns have had a long, and complicated, history in American popular culture. Click here for Terms of Use and Privacy Policy applicable to this site.