And considering a gun as a sporting good, doesn’t a gun have just as much use as a baseball bat or a golf club? Both of which could be easily used to bludgeon someone to death. Or a sword that has no practical in-home purpose. Again, I’m not saying these objects are of equivalent effectiveness at killing people. Just pointing out that various “deadly weapons” are found everywhere in the average American home. These things sometimes have practical use, and sometimes only exist for entertainment. But the thing they have in common is that they can all be dangerous in the wrong hands.
This is one of the stupidest arguments I’ve heard in a long time. Sure, I could kill somebody with a can of Pringles if I tried hard enough. But the effectiveness matters. And a can of Pringles is not tailor-made to kill a large number of human beings in a short amount of time — unlike a gun. The goal of a can of Pringles is to give a mildly satisfying food consumption experience. The goal of a gun is to kill. And that’s why we regulate the latter but not the former.