Kill Bill was more than just gratuitous violence. It was gratuitous violence taken to extremes that only Tarantino can possibly achieve. The point was that only knives were used.

Katana fetishism. It's also a thing. Machete fetishism in some backwater African countries.

A church congregation was just massacred in Nigeria, guns not knives, Catholics, no one has taken credit for the killings yet but there is some conflict between farmers and herders which was likely the cause of it.

People are gratuitously violent. Always have been. Doesn't much matter whether you're into it or not. It happens every day.

Good coffee, good weed, and time on my hands...