Yes, there's a danger within the tiny-brained folk [think Columbine?], a tendency to extrapolate Murica's fav media / Nintendo Ha-Ha violence into some New principle needing Fulfillment.

I know of only one remedy to that; one cannot make words (pix) 'safe' for people; one only can attempt to breed sane people who are inherently 'safe' from easy manipulation by abstract symbols. (We don't do that very well; clearly others do better.)

Map/territory problem? Creeping dumbth can only worsen the situation, I'd guess.