We cannot blame stuff for things people do. You can use a knife to cut your dinner or you can use it to kill someone. The knife and the knife maker are not to blame for your wrong doings.
You can choose to lie or not. Don't blame ChatGPT if it is misused by someone. Don't blame Adobe if Photoshop is misused by someone.
You can use guns for target shooting, you can use guns as a detterent when your life is in danger, you can use guns for hunting.
That’s also the same argument countries use for nuclear weapons.
Target shooting? No absolute need for real guns
Self defence -- if someone is threatening you with a gun or knife, are you going to try to draw faster?
What else would you use for target shooting?
Yes.
What else for target shooting: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biathlon_rifle
I assume you have never been hunting.
Thompson Center makes the Contender handgun specifically for hunting.
Every hunter should carry a handgun for self defense if the critters do not cooperate and fall over quickly. Hog hunts can get dicey even if you are experienced and prepared.
AR-type rifles are favorites for hunting, but not usually in .223.
And of course the reason for an armed and trained population has nothing to do with hunting. It's about stopping predators who prey on good people.
> stopping predators who prey on good people
(You're in the US or somewhere else?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTpTIVlC7Ho
that's a licence class of it's own just as a passenger vehicle drivers licence doesn't qualify you to drive an articulated vehicle, heavy vehicle, or vehicle for more than 9 passangers.
Ok, yes, makes sense, I think, with its own license class, for those who work with / need to do that. (Looks like otherwise dangerous weapons, if anyone could get their hands on them)
> (You're in the US or somewhere else?)
Texas, USA
You can use guns for target shooting, you can use guns as a detterent [sic] when your life is in danger, you can use guns for hunting.
Of these three things you listed, two of them are killing. A gun wouldn't be useful as a deterrent if the threat of its application wasn't present—you can't brandish a feather and get the same effect because a feather offers no threat and does not have a reputation of lethal harm. And hunting is literally killing, although it may have a legit purpose, such as sustenance.
There are good people who want to be left alone and there are predators.
Predators can do a lot of damage over time.
I want the good people to stop the predators. In an ideal world, the predators would die the first time they tried to prey on the innocent. That is the purpose of the killing: to stop predators who prey on good people.
0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_Don%27t_Kill_People,_Ra...
What is its primary purpose?
The primary purposes of generative AI are to educate humans and to enhance the productivity of humans.
While I cannot argue that this statement is wrong it does make me wish some things would never have been invented in the first place because of how much harm they can cause and the fact that there will always be a huge chunk of population who will surely abuse those things for bad. Such as nuclear weapons, AI, etc. Sometimes I even wish internet wouldn’t exist so that we could continue living simpler lives.
I was very careful not to. I’m merely pointing out that availability matters.
People’s actions sit in all sorts of levels of gray. Of course it’s up to the person, but that doesn’t mean access/opportunity/circumstance don’t matter.