"Books are just guns that fire gay rays" - some MAGA, probably.
Especially religious books. Not going along with some religious book definitely holds the record for most people killed.
That's why my buddy Mike Johnson and I use CovenentEyes (tm) to protect us from all the hot gayness that just absolutely LEAPS out of the computer screens at us, too bad I can't get an analogue version for all the books with hot gayness that tries to attack us!
edit: 1 downvote? I didn't know my boi MJ was on lemmy! Yo whaddup ya fucking theocratic loon
Being from a very rural area: guns are tools. They provide self defense against wildlife and crazy humans when you're miles outside of law enforcement coverage, they are pest control, and they are a humane way of euthanasia when a farm animal is suffering.
And like most other tools, such as drills, post hole augers, machine lathes, tractors, cars, etc... they can maim and kill indiscriminately when used incorrectly or maliciously. But you cannot simply ban or remove the tool from everywhere because it is still serves a very important purpose. Can they be more controlled, education made mandatory, more stringent confiscation rules in the case of people with mental illness? Yes, and probably should. But you will never eliminate the firearm completely.
I am prepared to recieve the hate and downvotes for providing a measured, reasonable response.
Books don't make people gay. Attractive people of the same sex make you gay.
Well, that, and what I assume is a brain development process before or during puberty that I don't completely understand but I know has to exist, because I don't remember making a concious effort to be attracted to legs and striking eyes, but I sure am. I bet there is a rabbit hole where I could learn about all this.
People kill people and you've a genetic predisposition towards the sexuality you grow into, it's a nurture influences nature situation (i.e. how one is raised) that impacts what alleles become active or recessive and that impacts your sexuality (among a wide array of other things, physiological and psychological).
Just because one group of people can't live within reality doesn't mean you need to be as equally moronic to 'prove a point', especially when the point being presented as 'equal' is unabashedly fatuous.
Who is "sure"?
Guns don't kill people there inanimate objects with no emotions or feeling's, people kill people. After all who's pulling the trigger
Guns can be used as a force for good. As they can keep goverments in check as it's harder to have an authoritarian or facist state when you got a massive group of angry armed civvies, and they can protect you and your family from home intruders, and guns may be used as tools for good protecting your crop from wildlife but also they can be used as a force for bad as people may use to guns to fight one another in everyday conflicts and some people can't be trusted with a gun as they could be a danger to themselves and others overall guns can be bad things and good things but I believe the positives outweigh the negatives your always going get crazy nutters endangering themselves and others someway or another regardless if guns are legal or illegal
I am proud to be pro gun and pro lgbtq+ ✊