Well...here is another story that will have all you anti edged weapon nuts complaining that edged weapons kill more people than all long guns combined and way more than AR-15s in particular....and yet nothing is done to stop it.....no background checks for sharp tools or utensils....no waiting periods, no registration......and yet here we have another edged weapon tragedy.....
Prosecutor 100-Year-Old Man Killed Wife with Ax Then Self - Breitbart
"Utility" Look up the word and apply it in context. Guns were produced to kill; edged weapons are generally illegal or restricted to their traditional use (machete, ax, chefs knife, boning knife, etc.), gravity knives and push buttons are illegal.
Actually, I know you are blinded by your leftism ...which translates into anti gun nuttery....but here is the truth....guns were designed specifically to save lives.........
In nature, a stronger human being, a large animal, can and do kill or enslave weaker human beings, women, the old, the young, the less aggressive, the few vs. the many.....and in nature there is little or no way to overcome that....even with primitive weapons, again the stronger human has a huge advantage over all of those other humans...
And then the gun was created and it saves lives and creates freedom.....no longer is the stronger person superior to the weaker person.....they can't kill or enslave the weaker person easily anymore...why...because the gun makes them equal in strength. Give a strong man and weak man a sword, or a club...and the strong man is more likely to win....give a strong man and a weak man (woman, child, old person, injured person) a gun........and they are on equal footing...there is nothing that the strong man can do to the weaker man in combat that the weaker man can't do to the stronger man....
There fore the gun enables the weaker man to survive....a gun is a tool created to save lives......
True....like any other tool it can be used for evil.....a car can be used to run people over, or used to kidnap a victim, can be used to deliver an explosive....large quantities of explosives.....but that is only in the hands of an evil person.....
The same with the gun......a moron said....An AR-15 is perfect for killing small children (but any gun would do the same job...even revolvers with only 6 bullets or 5 )....and this is true...but it is also the way to save those same children.....a weak person, an unarmed person, a woman, a small man.......vs.... an attacker with an AR-15 doesn't stand a chance....but the same goes for a sword...as has been pointed out.....
Now....give one of the other people a gun....someone meant to protect those children....and the gun saves all of those lives.......until you say only the evil person can have that gun......
And it is you anti-gun nuts who only want the killer to have the gun....
Guns save lives...and you don't want those lives saved which is why you want to take guns away from the good guys and leave them only to the evil guys....