• delirious_owl@discuss.online
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        6 months ago

        They’re not necessarily made for killing. Most people defending themself with a pistol (whose only purpose is for shooting humans) would not want to shoot for the head or chest

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            6 months ago

            Was tornado cash made for laundering money?

            My point is that gun manufacturers will say they make their products for defense, not killing. Knife manufacturers, same. Hammer manufacturers, same.

            There’s very few products which everyone can objectively say are designed for killing.

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              6 months ago

              No, guns are tools designed specifically for killing. They have no use as defense if they can’t kill. They’re not shields. You also can’t hammer a nail with a gun, or cut a steak with a gun.

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                6 months ago

                You can sport shoot with them, you can hunt for food with them, and every military uses them…for mainly defense.

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                  6 months ago

                  How does hunting not involve killing?

                  How does such military defense not involve the act or threat of killing?

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                    6 months ago

                    This is like saying veterinarians are killers with their tools because they euthanize animals…

                    Just having arms is a deterant, yes firearms are designed to destroy, they’re also designed as a defensive tool.

                    You clearly ignored sports shooting which is an actual sport, even an event in the Olympics.

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          I’m downvoting you, but only because you wrote “whose only purpose is for shooting humans”, which is false statement.

          Really, you could have used better examples like brass knuckles. They can’t be used for anything else other than injuring and killing people.