• @[email protected]
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    18 months ago

    Might be a fun social experiment to propose a public gun lending armory. Like a library, you can walk in and check-out an AK-47 for a day or week for free. But just like the library charges for printed pages, you would have to pay for the ammo.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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      78 months ago

      I think there should be libraries for all sorts of things. For example, everyone on my street has their own lawnmower, trimmer, etc. And very rarely do people mow their lawns at the exact same time. It would be a lot more efficient if there was a place to check out the lawnmower to mow your lawn and put it away for someone else to use.

      • @iggames
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        28 months ago

        My city has a tool library program that sounds exactly like this (I haven’t tried it yet, not sure how well it works in practice). Would be especially nice for one-off sorts of tools you don’t expect to use often.

        The downside is you’d need to line up your project with their hours, and hope no one else is using it when you need it. But if you have the flexibility to plan ahead, could be a nifty resource.

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        28 months ago

        That’s a neat idea.

        Of course, conservatives would oppose it. They’d probably say that it’s socialism and thus axiomatically bad.

        And that it’s simply impossible to keep those shared tools in good repair while actively sabotaging the program.

        Some people are just anti social.

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      18 months ago

      That would be pretty cool actually. Some gun ranges already do this kind of thing but only on the premises.