Comment on Why shouldn’t firearm manufacturers be held accountable for the use of their weapons in crimes?
burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 9 months agoWe don’t blame beer manufacturers for drunk drivers, I can see the argument being similar. But guns are meant to kill by design. It is slightly different if there was an actual reason to be making them, like cameras, then I would say we do not need to hold the comapanies responsible. But these are made exclusively for death, which i think should be held to different standards than “useful” things
weeeeum@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Many objects are meant to kill by design. Daggers are frankly entirely useless as a knife but would you sue a company for making a dagger? Even then if daggers were banned people would just use kitchen knives. The bullet that kills the most people in the US is actually the scrappy little .22 LR, a very weak cartridge. If all guns were banned a knife frankly isn’t much less lethal.
burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
When was the last time someone killed hundreds of people with a knife??
hydrospanner@lemmy.world 9 months ago
So we will only hold him manufacturers liable when a single actor with a single weapon kills hundreds of people?
burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I’m just pointing out there is a massive difference between a stabbing weapon and a long range automatic/semi auto weapon