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.

  • sudoshakes@reddthat.com
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    6 hours ago

    If you have been to an Olympic village match or sat down to enjoy the sun at the preside t’s 100, then your words used before, “they buy a gun to threaten people exclusively”, we’re a known misrepresentation. Exclusively is an absolute word. An absolute with no possible other options.

    You would have seen the other reasons for yourself and still chose to lump every single person who competes in marksmanship into a camp of this opinion.

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      4 hours ago

      Take a look what subject “they” is standing for in my sentence. And then the quantifier before that subject.

      Don’t lecture me on semantics.