• kool_newt@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    If a gun is a tool, why is there no right to bear tools

    I’d say two reasons – one, because there are no organized successful efforts to ban tools like saws and hammers. And the other is that saws are not a fundamental means of personal protection.

    But in the 2020s, they’re just used to commit murder.

    Guns are used for protection of homes, for sport, for hunting for food, and some people just thing they’re really cool.

    You rarely ever hear about the so-called “good guy with a gun” and you hear a hell of a lot about entire classrooms of slain children.

    You hear what is profitable to show you. You’re not hearing about a great many smaller events involving guns.

    “Giving up rights is never the answer to any problem” is a sentence you made up and could easily be debated.

    Just taking your argument a bit further, if you’re ok with this, do you think a dictator is OK so long as they keep you safe? Why or why not?