Ilovethebomb comments on Desensitization to guns

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[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I have a lot of family members that live and work in a rural area, and firearms are simply tools of trade to them, as well as shooting for sport.

The only people you see with them in a city are police though.

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[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I mean a cook needs a knife to fillet a steak, that is clear,

What rural area business really needs a gun? People have been living rurally without problems without them.

I think it's an insurance policy for fear, most of the time. But one that doesn't work because now you contract a fear for fellow humans with guns.

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[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Pest control, genius. Rabbits, hares, magpies, possums, goats and more. One cousin is a commercial goat culler.

They're not used for self defence.

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[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world -2 points 5 months ago

All those were managed well before the invention of the gun.

Your cousin might need one, but that guy from no county for old men weilded a culler that needed no gun.

But it's mainly the self defense angle witch angers me. If you need a tool for killing stuff, a gun is your thing.

Butt most people don't need to kill stuff.

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