I don't know, I think people would do better with mandatory gun safety in schools. When I was in school, a private, Catholic one at that, we had the police come out early in the fall each year and demonstrate their firearms on watermelons and the like.
They went through the effort of showing us the very real power of guns, and then how guns were not toys (as toy guns looked similar but did not feel similar) and then how to go and tell an adult if we came across one we thought might be real.
And I think seeing the reality of it, being able to come up close and touch the watermelon drives the point home that these have the very real ability to harm someone...including you. Kids know that what they see in video games and on tv isn't real, but I think that it doesn't allow them to understand the actual ability of firearms. They vaguely know it's unsafe but would it blow up a whole building in one shot or do people run around after being hit 5 times? A good demonstration, especially by authority figures like the police can be very helpful.
By the same coin, adults can have unhealthy attitudes about guns as well, some treat them with far more casualness than they deserve, while others are afraid to touch one or be in the room with one even if it were unloaded and locked with a trigger lock. And I can't say that video games help or harm, anymore than movies. But I will do think the cavalier attitude of some characters in shows/games portraying guns are adopted by people who relate to the character.
Guns, like cars, are tools, they have specific rules for safe use. Neither item is good nor evil, they are simply powerful. It is the hand of the user that determines how they are used. Having a familiarity with both so that you can understand how they operate and how to use or stop their functioning I can only think of as a good thing. Of course I believe that all knowledge is useful, and is never wasted.
