I suspect it's a lot easier to get TV and film directors to show fewer scenes of characters smoking, than it is to get them to reduce the gunplay. How can action movies and crime movies even exist without gunplay?!The other variable you overlook is those two countries have never had a culture of gun ownership. So there probably is very little demand. There is a massive gun culture here, perpetuated by tv and movies.
The culture has to change to reduce demand otherwise they will be illegally brought in.
You know what law I would support. Let’s regulate the tv and movie industry so they don’t shamelessly promote that.
The only way smoking was greatly reduced in this country was to change the culture over a couple generations. That’s a good way to lessen gun ownership in this country.