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I hate guns. They are engineered from the ground up to take lives of other people. That is their sole purpose. To kill (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Emmie@lemm.ee to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] philpo@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There is a distinct difference in terms of sport shooting which I was referencing to - with Olympic shooting .22 lfb is the reference for "small caliber shooting". Everything above that, including other kinds of .22 are often seen as larger calibre. Therefore I was intentionally referencing the sport context.

While a .22 lfb surely can absolutely kill and has done so, nevertheless the chances of doing so are far smaller compared to 9mm, 5.56,etc.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Everything Olympic related is air guns as far as I know. But I’ve even seen 50cal air rifles. Again these are going to be much much slower.

[–] philpo@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

Nope,Olympic has .22lfd as their main calibre,but larger calibers exist.