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Imagine if this applies to other tools, like hammers.

Should the manufacturer of the 5 lbs MurderSpike SkullBleeder with night camouflage handle, extra inset bone crackers and instashatter blood flow accelerator head ®™, licensing games and movies to show people murdering each other gloriously with their hammer… be held responsible if by some off chance some person ends up murdering someone with it??? It’s ludicrous.

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MrNesser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The example doesnt work

Hammers a made to hammer in nails, they can be used for other purposes buts they are made for the one.

Guns are made to shoot a bullet into a person to seriously injure or kill them. They have no other purpose.

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- over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Guns are also made to hunt animals for food, so they’re not exclusively made to harm people. It’s all in the intent of the person with the gun.
  
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  - baked_tea@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    No one is hunting deer with a glock though
    
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    PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    No, but plenty of hikers carry handguns for safety. They’re lighter than a rifle, but have the same effect against anything smaller than a bear or wolf
    
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    NABDad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Not with that attitude.
    
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    ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Handgun hunting is actually a thing
    
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    Professor_juicy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The fuck they aren’t. Glock 20 10mm will absolutely drop any animal you point it at. Go ahead and hunt a moose with it if you want.
    
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- usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Guns’ original intention might’ve been to shoot people (and some are of course still designed with that in mind) but there are obviously millions of gun owners around the world that manage to use their guns without shooting people so it’s clearly not their exclusive use…
  
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- Widowmaker_Best_Girl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Okay, so do all bowmakers and swordsmiths now get charged for when people commit crimes with those?
  
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- WoodenBleachers@lemmy.basedcount.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Not necessarily a person. Just saying.
  
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Hazdaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
When a gun is used 100% correctly, it will kill.

When a hammer is used 100% incorrectly, it will kill.

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- RaoulDook@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Nope, lots of guns are used 100% correctly to shoot inanimate targets, in fact more often than they are used for killing anything. Target practice, competition shooting, recreational blasting, etc.
  
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