Gun violence in Films

According to the BBC News, since 1985 gun violence in films has tripled. Some of the recent PG-13 movies that "had a lot of gun violence", according to the study, included The Dark Knight (2008), Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011), Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), The Avengers (2012), The Amazing Spiderman (2012) and Taken 2 (2012). These particular films are all aimed towards younger audiences, one researcher apparently told the BBC that the reasoning behind this is "Violence sells".