Comment on Why shouldn’t firearm manufacturers be held accountable for the use of their weapons in crimes?
tim-clark@kbin.social 9 months agoI'm heading down to the hammer range to practice hitting nails. Listening to gun nuts talk about the use case for guns is ridiculous. It is actually nice to see a few people in this thread acknowledging what a guns primary purpose is.
radix@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Devil’s advocate: Isn’t the “primary purpose” of a product what it’s actually used for?
There are over 400 million guns in circulation in the US. In 2021, there were just under 50,000 gun-related deaths.
Is it fair to say that 0.01% of uses are the “primary purpose”?
tim-clark@kbin.social 9 months ago
If you practice shooting then you are just practicing to kill. So the folks that own the 400 million guns in the US are just practicing for the intended purpose. Which then you can extrapolate out they are just waiting to kill. Which falls in line with every gun owner I have known. Either practicing to kill animals or people.
FireTower@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That extrapolation is like saying that someone who participates in a fire evac drill is waiting for their house/work/school to burn down.
Being prepared for an emergency situation doesn’t mean you’d want it to happen.
tim-clark@kbin.social 9 months ago
It's less hoops than gun nuts jump through. Being prepared for an emergency vs being prepared to kill are vastly different. The problem is gun nuts won't acknowledge their raging boners at the thought of using a gun in the slightest perception of an inconvenience. The John Wayne mentality is a detriment to society
JustZ@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Primary purpose of a fire drill is what? Readiness for a fire.
JustZ@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I would say that all those guns that aren’t killing people are not being used. They are sitting in safes or tucked in between people’s couch cushions, just waiting.
You don’t think they are all being used as display pieces or for target shooting, do you? And, to the extent they are being used for target shooting, that is practice to do what with them?
They are made to kill. That’s it.
Air rifles have a primary purpose of target shooting. Nobody is suggesting we hold air rifle manufacturers liable for mass shootings.