• Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    4 days ago

    I have a lot of family members that live and work in a rural area, and firearms are simply tools of trade to them, as well as shooting for sport.

    The only people you see with them in a city are police though.

    • Akasazh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      33·
      4 days ago

      I mean a cook needs a knife to fillet a steak, that is clear,

      What rural area business really needs a gun? People have been living rurally without problems without them.

      I think it’s an insurance policy for fear, most of the time. But one that doesn’t work because now you contract a fear for fellow humans with guns.

      • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        4 days ago

        Pest control, genius. Rabbits, hares, magpies, possums, goats and more. One cousin is a commercial goat culler.

        They’re not used for self defence.

        • Akasazh@lemmy.worldEnglish
          23·
          4 days ago

          All those were managed well before the invention of the gun.

          Your cousin might need one, but that guy from no county for old men weilded a culler that needed no gun.

          But it’s mainly the self defense angle witch angers me. If you need a tool for killing stuff, a gun is your thing.

          Butt most people don’t need to kill stuff.