Further: the fact, I think, that most gamers don’t dig this deep has all kinds of interesting political/values implications. Like…it’s not hard to fall back on “an armed population is a polite population” and “good guys with guns stop bad guys with guns” and all the rest of the hard-right 2nd Amendment libertarian stuff. Guns everywhere because the world is terrifying, the cops can’t protect you, laws are meaningless, a universe of scary others.