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The simplest version of the argument is "guns don't kill people." If a gun killing a person was a result of the gun needing to reform its ethics, we would send
by conartist6 1y ago
The simplest version of the argument is "guns don't kill people."
If a gun killing a person was a result of the gun needing to reform its ethics, we would send the gun to prison.
A gun might be said to kill a person when it has a design flaw and fires without any human's intent (as Sig Sauer's guns have apparently been doing) but the moral responsibility for that lies with the manufacturer.
- conartist6 1y agoI use this argument partly because I already hate it though. It's commonly used by people who have moral responsibility for perpetuating a system of gun violence who want to pretend that they do not
- johnisgood 1y agoI agree with "guns don't kill people", and they are not programmed to "kill people [without human intervention]", but their purpose is something along those lines and are produced for such reasons. Still, it requires a human for the gun to kill someone. The gun has no intent.