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.

  • @mojofrododojoEnglish
    1•1 day ago

    You are wrong about them being designed only to kill, though. The point of them is to wield deadly force,

    …?

    uh dude. you’re creating complexity where the simpler answer is obvious. if their point is to wield a force that’s deadly, it’s point is to be able to kill at a trigger pull.

    you’re correct elsewhere that firearms reduce the training necessary to be a lethal threat at short notice, but imho that’s academic. An amateur with a knife can still be deadly, same with a spear. Atlatls are a different story; they require actual training. this is all over the place and loses the thread that firearms are distinctly weapons to maim and kill.