[InclinedPlane]

Certain parts of our society have been rushing headlong toward the ideal infantilization / dis-empowerment of the individual, toward utter dependency on the police and the state for protection from violence, poverty, etc. As a personal connection to self-reliance, self-defense, weapons, firearms, and indeed violence becomes increasingly taboo it also becomes increasingly potent (see also: the draw and power of sex in puritanical society), and thus that much greater of a draw for entertainment.