Message from @Jek Porkins
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A gun is a tool
like literally lets define what a weapon is
My fridge is fully stocked with deer meat that I hunted.
I used the gun as a tool to feed my family
a weapon is any implement used to assault a person or animal, can we agree to that definition?
a rubber mallet is absolutely a weapon if you start attacking people with it, you can't logically deny that
nothing is intrinsicly assaulting people
It can be used *as* a weapon. But it isn't inherently a weapon.
THANK YOU
now we've come to some clarity
As if that somehow proves your point, but go on.
nothing is a weapon by default, it can only be *used* as a weapon
Things made for killing are weapons by default.
I have a czech military surplus rifle easily capable of downing 20 men, but the most fearsome thing i've ever shot with it is a pumpkin
it is not a weapon
Is a shotgun that fires bean bags a weapon?
not in the strictest sense
You're trying to argue that because you don't use your sword to cut down people it was never made for cutting down people to begin with.
the point is that there is no logical distinction between weapon and non-weapon
There is.
What about an ornamental sword?
Most kitchen knives are made to cut meat but not necessarily cleave through a man.
A cleaver is made to cleave the bone in meat on a table but it's horrible to try to cleave down an actual person. For that you have *larger* and generally sharper *weapons* made.
so if I kill somebody with, say, a benchrest gun, its a rifle that is used exclusively for high-accuracy target shooting and can't even be weilded as its literally bolted to a table, is it not a weapon?
Also generally known as. Here it comes. Swords.
Swords are weapons.
Guns are made for killing, they're inherently weapons.
ugh
that statement is factually untrue
I can name you several dozen guns clearly not designed for lethal use
What about a target pistol made specifically for competitive shooting?
Literally designed from the blueprint to be used in competition
Using an unicorn to disprove a trend
flare pistols, line guns, bench rifles, etc etc etc
Are those the majority of guns?
They're a subset, and certainly not one-off
no, but nevertheless they are guns which are not weapons
And flare pistolf have a designated use
But you said pistol
lol actually no
Which is a gun