• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    I don’t hear a lot about 3-year-olds stabbing 1-year-olds. I do hear a lot about toddlers getting guns and shooting other kids…

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          Again, it’s gun nuts like you that make people like me say fuck the second.

          HAHAHA I own my dads old little .22. I’m not a gun nut, just empathetic enough with people that have different lifestyles to know that tens of millions of americans provide food and protection for themselves with guns, and that someone using a tool incorrectly across the nation shouldn’t make me hate and ban them.

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        Knives are in nearly every household yet accidental deaths from laceration are not very common. Maybe they’re not nearly as prevalent in media so kids don’t think to “play” with knives. Maybe they’re just not as deadly as guns (they’re absolutely not).

        The biggest difference between knives (plus the dozens of other dangerous household items that any normal person owns) and guns is the purpose. Guns are intended to harm living things. I cut things almost daily, but in 40 years I’ve never had a situation where I thought a gun would’ve improved the outcome.

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        Yup, actually putting the gun in a locked safe or maybe a trigger lock or a safety switch or taking out the bullets, nothing else would work… responsible gun owners are not a problem. Stop creating an issue where there isn’t one. Gun control isn’t just banning guns.

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        You cant ban “basic” tools

        Guns are tools too, but way to specialized. Almost nobody really needs them.

        But knives? I use knives daily for food prep/cooking

        And opening boxes

        And cutting wood

        (Of course different knives with different types of blade, etc)

        A gun has 1 purpose: kill someone

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          but way to specialized. Almost nobody really needs them.

          Every tool is specialized. How many different screws do they make that need different screw drivers?

          And the fact that you can’t empathize with any other lifestyle than your, likely big city, lifestyle is absurd. Do you not know people rely on hunting for food? For protection?

          But knives? I use knives daily for food prep/cooking

          What if a rural individual hunts every day?

          And opening boxes

          Guards his animals every day. You ever try to get a hungry coyote off your chickens?

          kill someone

          See right there, that’s my point. You don’t see it as a tool. You see it as a violent weapon that is only made to kill ‘someone,’ you’re so limited in your world view that you can’t even comprehend someone hunting for a deer to provide for their family. All you know is that you can buy some deer meet at stores.