So you’re saying it’s a tool designed to be used by anyone, including idiots, and is dangerous in the hands of idiots. And we as a society should do better to make sure this potentially dangerous tool shouldn’t be used by idiots.
Yep, agree.
etchinghillside@reddthat.com 15 hours ago
This is like blaming the gun for killing people.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
artyom@piefed.social 14 hours ago
Uhhh not really. Guns don’t just go off by themselves.
KiloGex@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I mean they do sometimes without the proper safety protocols in place, but you still blame the user in the end.
artyom@piefed.social 14 hours ago
They absolutely do not.
thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I mean, there’s a good reason the first rules of firearm safety are to always treat a weapon as loaded, and to never direct the weapon at something you aren’t prepared to destroy. The key point being that you never know when some freak accident can happen with a loose pin, bad ammo, a broken spring, or just a person tripping and shaking the gun a bit too hard.
A gun should never go off by itself. You still treat it as if it can, because in the real world freak accidents happen.
4am@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
“Guns are foolproof”
You should have yours taken away.
queermunist@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
More a problem with the marketing, right? Imagine if guns were marketed as safe and helpful back scratchers, and then someone shoots themselves because they used the gun to scratch their back.
voidsignal@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
They would still be fucking dumb. Believing marketing is a mark of idiocy
queermunist@lemmy.ml 13 hours ago
Idiots don’t deserve to die.