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For the same reason that it's generally illegal to make your own fireworks: you have a pretty good chance of killing yourself or more importantly kill someone n
by mystified5016 2y ago
For the same reason that it's generally illegal to make your own fireworks: you have a pretty good chance of killing yourself or more importantly kill someone nearby.
The risk of letting random people blow themselves up is one thing, but having innocent bystanders get killed or maimed is totally different.
Most fully developed adults agree that putting yourself at risk in the pursuit of your hobbies is fine, with limits. Putting others in danger who are unaware of the risk to life and limb is not acceptable. You, a private citizen, simply do not have the right to produce bombs as a hobby because of the undue risk to everyone around you.
- diggan 2y agoSo, basically a longer and reworded version of "as long as they're not hurting other people"?
- noqc 2y agoAs long as they can prove that they are not risking hurting other people. Suppose that I fire a gun in a randomly chosen direction and don't hurt anyone, should I be allowed to repeat the process?
- fragmede 2y agoSome say yes, others say no. The Internet will never be able to solve this issue.
- noqc 2y agoYes but what do you say? Don't dodge the question.
- fragmede 2y agoI don't know that my personal opinion is all that important but I fully admit to driving in excess of the speed limit in very specific places where I deem it safe and others do not. I don't know anything about shooting guns, unfortunately.