What is its primary purpose?
The primary purposes of generative AI are to educate humans and to enhance the productivity of humans.
0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_Don%27t_Kill_People,_Ra...
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.
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.
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?
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
What else would you use for target shooting?
Yes.
What else for target shooting: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biathlon_rifle
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.