I hate people who treat them like some toys and fantasize about them. That makes me think they are in some sort of death cult. That they found socially acceptable way to love violence.

I would still get one for safety but it is a tool made for specifically one thing. To pierce the skin and rip through the inner organs of a person.

They can serve a good purpose but they are fundamentally grim tools of pain and suffering. They shouldn’t be celebrated and glorified in their own right, that is sick. They can be used to preserve something precious but at a price to pay.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    everything made my human minds is a tool. artillery is no exception.

    a gun is a tool just like a hammer, a drill, a paintbrush, a glue stick, etc. some people have favorite tools.

    personally I have a carpenters pencil my father left behind on the job site we both last worked on before he died. it’s my favorite pencil and I only use it on personal projects I wish he was around to help me with. in a sense I feel like he’s there with me still, even all these years later.

    I know of people who have favorite guns, because they bonded with their fathers over them while hunting.

    having an emotional connection to a tool isn’t wrong or unhealthy.

    that said, having an infatuation with the killing power or firepower of a gun isn’t healthy. knowing your tools is one thing but obsessing over how many rounds your gun can fire and proudly treasuring it only for that is sick.

    guns are tools to be respected, and like any other tool you hold with your hands, it starts with how you perceive it in your mind.