Once upon a time, violence in movies consisted of the Good Guy and the Bad Guy facing off and the Good Guy would dispense justice in a tense show down.
Today, the hero bursts into a room, kills the 20 people in the room (with lots of blood) then moves on to the next room and kills 30 more.
Yeah, that might desensitize people and make them think they can shoot up a whole building and walk away. It’s not a good aspect of our culture.
The 1990s John Woo movies were over the gun in their gunplay (The Killer, Hard Boiled...) but there’s far more violence in the Capt. America/Avengers films (which is the one where everyone at the CIA/FBI/oh yeah SHIELD is a Hydra-NAZI?).
When they stopped having to wire up squibs to do gun stunts (and switched to computer animation) they amped it up.
Is the lack of blood “less violent”? Is shooting people in the kneecap less violent than shooting them in the chest?
So true.
Also, today's cop shows are about rogue cops breaking the rules and getting away with it - even the good guys are bad guys!
Whats wrong with showing guns in movies