Two days after 17 people were gunned down in a Florida high school, moviegoers flocked en masse to see “Black Panther,” now expected to have the fifth largest opening weekend of all time. The film is nothing short of an achievement, earning enthusiastic praise from fans and critics alike.

But the timing is difficult to ignore. Not because one event directly had anything to do with the other, but because our partisan conversation about gun violence is occurring against the backdrop of an entertainment culture saturated in gun violence.