I agree, it was an exaggeration on my part. But even though widely used for sport, that is not what guns made their name as to be. Wars and conflicts always were the main consumers of and the driving force for weapon development, thus naturally attaching a strong association between the two. And that's what they, especially the more powerful ones as the one being polled, in my opinion, symbolise the worst trait that us, humans have - despite being so smart and intelligent and being proud of that, we still feel the need to crack eachothers heads open over disagreements.
That is a bit one sided though. War isn't just petty fighting. You can fight for self defense. War shouldn't be looked down on just because it can be violent. It's not necessarily something that anyone wants to do, but it's also not something that is never worth doing. The alternative to fighting back against someone who is more interested in themself than you is to let them have their way and that can easily lead to far more suffering than fighting back. If there was simply nothing important in life, your view of fighting would make a lot of sense, but I think that just about everyone finds some good to life and would rather not be trampled on.
NERF guns are a lot cooler than this IMO.
So, fluorescent orange machine pistols that shoot chunks of foam are cool? That's interesting.
That all makes sense, but then why dislike the guns? They're not contributing to people being selfish at all. It's like reaching to find a problem with them. I guess you could do that, but I feel like this is being done to weapons and not really to anything else.
Gun - Made to be used as a weapon.
Again, if you use a gun for self-defence that means that there is offence present in the first place. Most likely by someone else behind another gun.
And the latter two sentences are what my point is. Nowhere did I say that we should get rid of/ban all the guns. It's the fact that we, as humanity as a whole, actually need them. The thing that we have skyscrapers and spaceships should be a good indicator that we should be intelligent enough to realise that violence and crime is a self-destructive activity for us on the large scale.
That leads me to ask why weapon is looked down upon and it's neither a good or bad thing.
What makes you say most likely another gun?
I'm not talking about the banning of guns, but their association with this and that. No doubt they are liked by criminals for their utility in some cases, but this is no different from anything else. We need defense because we're still the same species we've always been going back to long before we had the inventions of today. Biologically, there's a chance that someone is inclined to steal or kill and no amount of skyscrapers will impact that. Outside of that we're not yet at a state where we can solve all the world's problems. There are limited resources and a lot of people. On the whole we're doing alright managing it all, but some places do occasionally run out of important resources for a time (possibly an extended time) and this leads to problems. The number of spaceships we have doesn't necessarily correlate to those issues. We do realize as a whole that violence and crime is bad, thus guns. That doesn't mean we can solve the whole issue.
Assaut rifles are designed to be used by a military, and in a military, rifles are just a small part of the equipment. A simple mechanism, a tool that allows the soldiers, let's say, perform their tasks. The army itself may be used for very various purposes - good and bad. You respect the army protecting you, right? Those rifles let them do their work.
As long as the balance of power is maintained. As the rest of that is pretty much pure realism I am assuming that is the line you take.
