I hate people who treat them like some toys and fantasize about them. That makes me think they are in some sort of death cult. That they found socially acceptable way to love violence.

I would still get one for safety but it is a tool made for specifically one thing. To pierce the skin and rip through the inner organs of a person.

They can serve a good purpose but they are fundamentally grim tools of pain and suffering. They shouldn’t be celebrated and glorified in their own right, that is sick. They can be used to preserve something precious but at a price to pay.

  • 1ns1p1d@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    edit-2
    20 days ago

    I have worked in Accident & Emergency in England and in an ER in America. Guns are a curse.

    You all need to see the deserted dead body of a 15 year old laying on the table after an unsuccessful resuscitation attempt. A baby who has been shot through, or the crowds of relatives helplessly sobbing in the streets outside the emergency room.

    Every gun owner thinks they are a responsible gun owner until they arent. Its simply not possible to be 100% safe 100% of the time. That’s not a thing that humans do.

    And no. There are nowhere near as many knife deaths in England.

    I never saw a fatal stabbing in the UK, but I’ve seen many in America. The numbers are insignificant when compared to gun accidents and murders.

    All “tools” that kill this many people should absolutely be regulated.

    Americans never shut up about freedom, but don’t pay attention to the freedom taken away simply by the threat that anyone around you could be carrying a gun. You’re all just used to it being your way. It’s so nice not to have to consider the possibility. The american way is like spending your lives with the sword of Damocles dangling over your heads. That’s your freedom.

  • otacon239@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    21 days ago

    I’ve always looked at them from a utility/engineering/sport perspective. I have no intent of ever carrying a weapon, but the training it takes to learn how to target practice, and the engineering that goes into them are incredibly fascinating.

    I don’t encourage people to own guns and I don’t have any myself, but I really wish target practice didn’t have to share a platform with a killing machine.

    • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.eeOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      edit-2
      21 days ago

      target practice didn’t have to share a platform with a killing machine.

      The problem is that, I may be wrong but for the most gun enthusiasts it is a feature and not a flaw.

  • Wooki@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    21 days ago

    No, only some are and even then it’s not broadly accurate, it’s closer to Anthropomorphism.

    Weapons are designed from the ground up to kill animals. From birdshot 10g shotgun to bolt action plastic tip single shot rifle.

    Assault rifles are a category designed primarily to kill humans

      • Olhonestjim@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        20 days ago

        Hunters hunt overpopulated animals. Humans before us killed off most predators, leaving us with the duty of filling the roles of predators to control prep populations.

        Hunting is necessary, unless you want lions, bears, and wolves in your backyard, or else thousands of deer eating crops and crossing the highways.

    • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.eeOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      edit-2
      21 days ago

      “Bum bum pif paf” is a childish, almost cartoonish way of resistance. If you’re a serious person, you understand that while certain actions may sometimes be necessary, celebrating or eagerly anticipating them is disturbing. Additionally, such actions are rarely the real solution to a problem.

      People who fantasize about violence write things like this not because they want to solve anything, but because they’re looking for an excuse to act out and release their anger.

        • BradleyUffner@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          0
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          21 days ago

          I’m curious what you think he’s accomplished. Cause the dead guy was replaced immediately with someone just as evil, and the anesthesia coverage thing you all love to claim was already in the works weeks before Luigi.

          Nothing changed. It’s still business as usual for health insurance companies.

          • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            edit-2
            21 days ago

            He wiped out 6 months of UHC stock price gains overnight and caused Cigna to commit to expanding their accountability, transparency and customer service departments and tie executive compensation to customer satisfaction metrics.

            What did peaceful protest get you in the last two decades? Romneycare is all I can think of and the insurance mandate was a huge step backwards that wipes out any benefit that might be seen from the mandatory coverage for pre-existing conditions.