A 3-year-old accidentally shot and killed their 1-year-old sibling Monday in Fallbrook after getting ahold of an unsecured handgun, San Diego County Sheriff’s Deputies said.
  • Nioxic@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 year ago

    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

    • MasterOBee Master/King@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      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.