• Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    How does a gun being a singular purpose tool exclude it from being farm equipment? Do you think a thresher does anything else but thresh?

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      1 year ago

      A thresher is a labor saving tool, it replaces the physical labor of separating wheat from chaff. Without a thresher a farmer can still accomplish the task.

      A gun is made specifically and solely to move a projectile down range with lethal velocity. What labor is a gun saving?

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        1 year ago

        Guns are useful on farms for pest control, euthanizing livestock, and self defense.

        All of those could be accomplished through other means, therefore guns are ok, according to your logic

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          1 year ago

          All you’re saying is that a gun is used to kill/maim, which is exactly my point, which is why the “hurr durr a gun is just another tool” argument doesn’t hold water.