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Originally Posted by chubeyr1
People think their vehicles are not weapons. 4000 pounds of steel on the road doing 110 kph is a weapon.
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Ignoring the rest of that post, but this one really grinds my gears...
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weap·on
/ˈwepən/
noun
noun: weapon; plural noun: weapons
a thing designed or used for inflicting bodily harm or physical damage
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A semi is not
DESIGNED to inflict bodily harm. It can be used as such, yes, but that is not it's design.
Henry Ford didn't design the Model T as a weapon, he designed it as a mode of transportation. When I hop into my car at 5am to drive to work, I'm not hoping into a weapon. If I hop into an M1 Abrams, that's a different story.
If someone jumps off a bridge, would you start calling the bridge a "suicide device"? No, it's a bridge that someone used for something other than its designed purpose.