> guns are not a good example. there is no way i can use a gun for constructive purpose.
That tells us more about you than it says about guns. It says is that you're either ignorant or a thug.
We can easily distinguish the two. How many people have you assaulted? If 0, you don't know that folks who use guns criminally have a history of other criminality. If not...
> think of a knife. 99.99% use the knife for good reasons.
Not really. I use and own many knives, and would never use one on a person, even in self-defense. No one wins in a knife fight. I use knives for cutting food in the kitchen, but also for cutting fishing line, rope, slicing through grass and undergrowth to get to the soil, shaving down wood to fit where I need it to fit, etc. Knives are a tool.
I use a gun to kill. That's its only purpose. Hunting/killing and target practice for hunting are the only things a gun is useful for. I can't use a gun to help me with the crops, to fish, or while working in the garage.
Knives can be used to construct. Guns can only be used to destruct. Not saying guns have no legitimate purpose (I use one for hunting many times per year), but that legitimate purpose begins and ends with killing or practicing to kill. It's a long leap from taking the life of a deer to taking the life of a human, but you use the exact same tool in the exact same way, the only way it can be used.
So are we ruling out target practice for the sake of target practice? I go shooting around once a month for the sole purpose of making a steel plate ring. I have no intention of hunting animals or killing a human being with the firearms that I use; The sole purpose is recreational target shooting. Of course, in a wild scenario such as home invasion that would be a different story, however the same can be said of any object used for defense purposes, be it a knife, pipe, flower pot, etc.
And lets be honest here, you would most definitely use a knife in self defense if it came down to that. It's a preposterous argument to say that in a life or death scenario, you'd opt for a lesser source of protection in order to not use a sharp object.
> And lets be honest here, you would most definitely use a knife in self defense if it came down to that. It's a preposterous argument to say that in a life or death scenario, you'd opt for a lesser source of protection in order to not use a sharp object.
Really?! Well, I guess it's different if, thanks to your gun laws there's a good chance the intruder might be carrying a firearm. No scratch that, if they got a gun, then you're still screwed with a knife.
First, do you know where to hit them to disable them at once? If not, you're now standing really close to a really angry, bleeding intruder.
Second, even if you do, they now bled on the walls, the furniture, everywhere. Have fun cleaning that up.
Third, you just killed a person. You can't really "disable" someone with a knife, either you kill them or you don't.
My advice? A big stick. Like the wooden handle of a broomstick or something. Keeps people with knives at a distance, you can hit them, poke them, and pin them to the ground while you call the police. (stick locks below the chin, behind the jawbone, base of the neck, pushing backwards. very uncomfortable)
I would not use a knife. There is an extremely high possibility that I would be injured by my own knife just as easily as I would be injured by the knife of my opponent. If someone held a knife to me and demanded my wallet, I would give it to him. If someone held a knife to me and demanded my life, I would attempt to disarm him/her with my hands, not my knife. Blades are dangerous in ways that guns can never be.
I covered target practice in "practicing to kill". Whether or not you intend to do so, a gun is used for killing, and practicing with a gun is practicing how to use a tool designed for killing. I understand this may not be your view, but this is reality the way I see it.
If that's true, the designers aren't very good because most guns aren't that useful for killing. Seriously - .22 is basically a joke for killing people.
> Hunting/killing and target practice for hunting are the only things a gun is useful for.
Unless you're claiming that hunting is "not constructive", you're disagreeing with "there is no way i can use a gun for constructive purpose."
> I can't use a gun to help me with the crops, to fish, or while working in the garage.
So? You can't use golf clubs or a book on python for any of those things either. Oh, and you can use a gun to kill fish. (You then scoop them up with a net.)
That tells us more about you than it says about guns. It says is that you're either ignorant or a thug.
We can easily distinguish the two. How many people have you assaulted? If 0, you don't know that folks who use guns criminally have a history of other criminality. If not...
> think of a knife. 99.99% use the knife for good reasons.
That's true of guns as well.