"They tend to like guns" Liberals who like guns, kinda funny.
And where would sci-fi be without guns.
I would guess it's a power fantasy. Gee, now that they've lost the last two elections I wonder if we'll see a lot more film violence? Heheh.
Could just be the region too, this is the "old west" and this area (AZ, NM, and neighbors excluding CA) tends to be pretty friendly to guns on a very core level. Even Tucson, considered to be the liberal outpost of AZ, has shall issue CCW.