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Yes. My position is that I don't think we should be making tools designed for killing people.

• gowld 5y ago
  So only criminals should have weapons? Who will stop the criminals, without weapons?
  • JabavuAdams 5y ago
    Why do we have violent criminals? Also, there actually aren't that many versus say gun sales. Can we push the number of violent criminals to 0? Maybe not, but we could greatly reduce the numbers with more intelligent social policies (in the US or Canada, say). The wild-west mentally and the fact that it has been co-opted by certain political groups actually leads to more crime and more fear (which sells guns and regressive politics). What if no one lived in a state or neighbourhood so shitty that they felt the need to arm up? What if they had not been indoctrinated since birth with a wild-west mentality that linked gun-ownership to freedom? The "only criminals will have weapons" argument is a really low-quality surface-level distraction from getting to grips with problems we could actually solve.
  • user-the-name 5y ago
    Where would the criminals get them, if they are not made?
  • diffeomorphism 5y ago
    Yes, only criminals and police. And black market weapons are expensive, so they are also very hard to get for criminals. This works very well in many, many other countries. As a particularly interesting example: Japan has almost no gun crime at all: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38365729 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38365729 > In 2014 there were just six gun deaths, compared to 33,599 in the US.
• crazy1van 5y ago
  This is a utopian fantasy. Humans have been making tools for killing people since we were living in caves.
• adi831997 5y ago
  I think with the dual-use tools, it's more about the user instead of the inanimate tool itself