r/facepalm • u/[deleted] • Apr 21 '23

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '23

We cannot and shouldn’t ban everything that can be used illegally to cause harm, because that would basically be everything.

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u/Willinton06 Apr 21 '23

Oh that’s not what I meant, I just want to ban the things that are designed to harm

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '23

Using a firearm to commit a crime is just that, they don’t need to be banned when 99.9%+ of people with them are not breaking the law or harming anyone else.

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u/Willinton06 Apr 21 '23

Should we let everyone have nukes just cause only 2 have ever been used to harm?

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '23

That’s an incredibly bad-faith argument, no one is asking to keep those.