What's a weapon?
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your friend is saying 'true weapons', that is weapons designed soley for the purpouse of killing, and is largely dismissing 'impromptu' or 'weapons of impulse' such as a broken bear bottle or a table leg as legitmate weaponry.
a weapon is anything that Isn't you that you used to cause harm.
be it a car, a broken bottle, or a high powered rifle.
if it isn't a natural apendge of your body then it is a weapon.
a weapon is anything that Isn't you that you used to cause harm.
be it a car, a broken bottle, or a high powered rifle.
if it isn't a natural apendge of your body then it is a weapon.
Butter knife is not a weapon. Combat knife most certainly is.wordsmith said:
Yeah, there is definetly a fine line, but hammer or kitchen knife or baseball bat are more along the line of "improvised weapons" - i.e. things that weren't actually created to be used as weapons, but can be in a pinch.
I agree with what a few people have said, that a weapon is something designed specifically to inflict injury or to be used defensibly against another person.
The guy above has it right in my opinion, that household items are improvised weapons. Yes, I can think of several ways to kill someone with a pen or a chopstick, but it's hardly their main function.
I wouldn't think of sieges and psychological ploys as weapons personally. I think of them more as tactics to gain the upper hand.
I'm surprised no one seems to have mentioned fighting unarmed. I've been doing martial arts for 4 years but I wouldn't say I considered myself a human weapon, even though I could kill unarmed.
The guy above has it right in my opinion, that household items are improvised weapons. Yes, I can think of several ways to kill someone with a pen or a chopstick, but it's hardly their main function.
I wouldn't think of sieges and psychological ploys as weapons personally. I think of them more as tactics to gain the upper hand.
I'm surprised no one seems to have mentioned fighting unarmed. I've been doing martial arts for 4 years but I wouldn't say I considered myself a human weapon, even though I could kill unarmed.
This is pretty much it. ^Furburt said:
Side note: love your icon, great film, that scene always makes me laugh my ass off.
Well yes; this is what I was saying. You can use all kinds of things as "weapons" but I wouldn't use the word "weapon" to describe a pen. I'd describe a pen as a "writing implement" and a sword as a "weapon", despite the fact that both could be used to kill or maim.Tiny116 said:
I was really just saying that listing a million and one household items under the definition of "weapon" is a bit unnecessary and overzealous, even if they could all technically be used as such.
I think they are both, a gun or a knife is definatly a weapon, but a chair is only considered a weapon if it is usedas one.
To me, a weapon is a tool intended to cause harm. However, to me personally something is not a weapon by the virtue of it's function but by the intention of it's wielder. A crowbar is a crowbar, but the instant someone picks it up and desides to use it to harm someone, it becomes a weapon. And when that person puts it down, it ceases to be a weapon. A gun is not a weapon, not until it is picked up with the intent to harm or kill.
Cuturally, I suppose a weapon is a tool, or an object, considered by most to be primarily intended to cause harm. But this is a definition I do not use.
After all, it is the human mind that makes a weapon what it is. A weapon is the manifestation of the intent to harm. Kitchen knives do not kill, people do. Fists do not kill, people do. Sledgehammers do not kill, people do.
Bullets do not kill, people do. Explosives do not kill, people do. The intent to harm is what separates a weapon from not-weapon.
Cuturally, I suppose a weapon is a tool, or an object, considered by most to be primarily intended to cause harm. But this is a definition I do not use.
After all, it is the human mind that makes a weapon what it is. A weapon is the manifestation of the intent to harm. Kitchen knives do not kill, people do. Fists do not kill, people do. Sledgehammers do not kill, people do.
Bullets do not kill, people do. Explosives do not kill, people do. The intent to harm is what separates a weapon from not-weapon.
It's called Wikipedia and it's very easy!
"A weapon is a tool used to apply force for the purpose of causing harm or damage to persons, animals or structures. Weapons are used in hunting, attack, self-defense, or defense in combat and range from simple, prehistoric weapons like clubs, spears, and specially-shaped stones to highly complicated modern weapons such as intercontinental ballistic missiles.
In a wider sense, weapons may include anything used to gain an advantage over an enemy, or to put an enemy at a disadvantage. Examples include sieges, better tactics, and psychological weapons which reduce the morale of an enemy."
"A weapon is a tool used to apply force for the purpose of causing harm or damage to persons, animals or structures. Weapons are used in hunting, attack, self-defense, or defense in combat and range from simple, prehistoric weapons like clubs, spears, and specially-shaped stones to highly complicated modern weapons such as intercontinental ballistic missiles.
In a wider sense, weapons may include anything used to gain an advantage over an enemy, or to put an enemy at a disadvantage. Examples include sieges, better tactics, and psychological weapons which reduce the morale of an enemy."
a physical object, the term is used to describe it when it is the hands of an individual who wishes to cause harm to another with said object
