• Dominojack@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The difference between a gun and tractor is that a gun is a tool designed to kill. Don’t conflate farming equipment with killing machines

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        1 year ago

        Is that supposed to be some kind of gotcha? How exactly does not owning gun or working on a farm negate the fact that a gun is a singular purpose tool?

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          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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            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?