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Originally Posted by Darekun
I suspect that seeing an RPG about guns, they'd think John Woo before they think Saving Private Ryan, but seeing an actual gun, they'd regard it like death in a can. (Although many people do stupid things even then.)
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That's not unreasonable, of course.
But note that even in John Woo movies, that bastion of realism and sense, the reason bullets don't kill the main characters because they miss. Not because
'oh, yeah, if you take three or four hits with these things, you might want to slow down and take a healing surge'.
Guns (or lethal weapons in general) that don't penetrate the inhumanly tough hide of otherwise perfectly normal humans are not a common fictional trope. They are, instead, a specific D&D/d20 trope that is unlikely to be widespread among people
who have no gaming experience at all.