• 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?