• SupraMario@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Target shooting? Pretty sure more ammo is spent putting holes in paper every day than ammo spent trying to kill someone. So yea…common use says, target practice.

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        1 year ago

        Better ban alcohol then, it kills more people than rifles of any kind used in homicides by around 5xs the numbers…knives as well, since they kill around 2 times what rifles of any kind do… hilarious that you bring up lawn darts though…do you want to wrap everyone in bubble wrap? Let’s keep all drugs banned as well since they kill basically more people than anything else.

        Living life to it’s fullest can be dangerous…if you want to live in a nanny way, do it to yourself but leave the adults the fuck alone.

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      more ammo is spent putting holes in paper every day than ammo spent trying to kill someone

      That’s probably true, but what percentage of that shooting range ammo is used in preparation for shooting people (whether offensively or defensively)?

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        Way way way less than .00000001%

        People don’t practice suicide at the range

        Cops who on average kill 1k civs a year also practice very little

        And gangs and drug violence is the same… you’re not seeing them go to the range.

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        I shoot long range mainly, it’s a lot of fun trying to hit a small target at hundreds of yards. It’s not easy at all. It’s a hobby, people shoot bows for hobby as well, or slingshots or air rifles.

        I also hunt and own a farm. I keep an AR10 in the utv Incase of wild boar, which are fucking scary… I’d rather face a bunch of pissed off coyotes than a single wild bore.