Exactly. If James Cameron's movies had any relevance to real-world gun-violence, then the mass-casualty shooting incidents would have started in 1984 shortly after the first movie was released.

I grew up in the 80s and graduated high school in 1999, I first saw Terminator when I was too young to understand plot and exposition. I the first time I saw Robocop, Predator, Commando, and most of the gun-violent movies in both decades. Same with most of the other kids in my class, school, and all other schools. My parents owned guns, so did theirs. We loved GI Joes, violent video games, laser tag, paintball, shooting paper targets, even deer hunting.

And yet school shootings didn't really become a thing until 1999. 15 years after Terminator 1 came out. I'd like James Cameron to explain this. Its not like gun control was a thing before then. Its not like assault rifles were banned before then.

If movie and video-game gun violence inspired real-world gun violence in the way some believe that it does, then the U.S. would have ceased to be a 1st world country by the 90s.