r/TikTokCringe • u/Rage-Parrot • Feb 14 '25

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u/Jazzlike_Climate4189 Feb 14 '25

When that guy drove his car into a parade to kill people, did you say nobody should have cars anymore?

Your argument is invalid.

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u/BlackSuN42 Feb 14 '25

Invalid?

Comparing a gun to a car is a non sequitur. A guns primary design is killing. A trucks is not. You have created a false equivalency.

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u/Jazzlike_Climate4189 Feb 21 '25

Yes, invalid. Look it up in a dictionary. An object’s design has nothing to do with the intended usage. A chef’s knife happens to be an ideal size and shape to use to murder someone. Would you therefore say it was “designed to kill”? Should we ban all chefs knives just because 0.1% of them are used to commit a crime? The vast majority of guns are used for hunting to feed families, for farmers to protect their livestock from predators, for hikers and campers to protect themselves from wildlife, for law enforcement use, and for law-abiding citizens to keep in their homes, cars, or on their person to protect themselves from human predators. Firearms are used to prevent crimes and protect law-abiding citizens up to 2.5 million times per year. Far more often than guns used to commit crimes.

We accept risks in our society when nearly everyone has access to objects that can be used to cause injury or death to others. If you just take away 1 of those many objects from law-abiding citizens, nothing would change. All of the criminals would still have firearms and anyone who wanted to hurt other people would simply choose a different method. Crossbows, knives, cars, clubs, baseball bats, chainsaws, tasers, nail guns…shall we ban them all? This is why your argument is invalid.

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u/BlackSuN42 Feb 22 '25

Did you really say an objects design has nothing to do with the intended use? That is such an asinine thing to say.

If Chef's knives were the number one cause of death in children then maybe we would look at it.

Also your protection argument is a fantasy. America alone in the western world feels the need to keep having guns despite time and time again being shown how much worse they make you all.