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Originally Posted by Libertine
Humans leverage tools to turn actions into effects. The more efficient the tool, the bigger the effects will generally be.
An idiot with his bare hands can be fairly dangerous. Give him a knife and he instantly becomes more dangerous. Swap out the knife for a gun and the danger increases again. Swap out the gun for a bomb and he can cause quite a bit of devastation. Make it a nuke and he can kill thousands.
Given the fact that handguns really serve only one purpose, do you really want to increase random people's capacity for causing injury and death?
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But you miss my point... Regardless of the tool or availability of a tool, humans will continue to kill other humans, accidentally or not, with whatever is at hand.
If someone wants you dead they will try it no matter what tool they can find or legally obtain. If there were no guns on the planet or allowed by law people will still kill each other with the next best thing.
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