Could typewriters/keyboards be considered dangerous weapons?

Question

If, so, shouldn't they be banned.?

A keyboard produces written thoughts and ideas. That is what I was talking about...
Ideas can be very dangerous.
It was a rhetorical question.
It was merely for discussion and not banning of the written word.

Answer 1

Freyja I so feel they can be emotional weapons. As someone that has been teaching for over 20 years.....I've seen technology change methods of communication in education alone.

By nature, people (ok the majority of people) fear major confrontation. Yes with the creation of email, I find that people can read something, misinterpret its "tone" and shoot of a response without allowing the information to be digested. In doing so, they may have turned a perfectly calm situation into a storm. Another example is that people will hide behind an email and say what is on their mind when they might never in a million years say such things in person. Ok, depending on the situation this could be good.....or this could be bad. This is why I never receive an email of this nature and then email back with a reply. I call or visit. Nothing......and I repeat nothing should ever replace eye to eye contact. And keyboards have definitely become a weapon of retort. Hopefully people will realize that this is a method of communication. For true understanding........it's in the eyes. :)

Answer 2

Why are you confusing dangerous as in capable of being used and likely to be used to inflict physical injury with dangerous as in capable of being used to disseminate knowledge (good or bad, true or false, whatever) which may result in consequences which may be viewed as negative or "dangerous" by one or some (whoever)?



If, for argument's sake, somebody (whoever) decides that a typewriter is a "dangerous weapon" by any description and determines that it should be banned, wouldn't they be too busy banning vehicles, televisions, radios, (I really can't go on with what would be a very long list) etceteras, too busy to give attention to the keyboard and typewriter?


LOL, there are way too many flower pots on window sills.

Now, I'm off to take a bath in my dangerous tub, put on my jeans with the dangerous zipper (yow), get on my dangerous motorcycle and hit the dangerous highway. I'll probably put on my headset and listen to some dangerous rock and roll while I ride. Sure hope I don't crash into one of those dangerous warning signs on the side of the road. Friend of mine lost an arm that way. Someone should ban those things!

P.S. Isn't this question just a subcategory of whether or not books / written works of any kind should be banned?

P.P.S. That's a rhetorical question I just typed -- or is it?

P.P.P.S. Now I'm being ironic -- or am I?

Answer 3

As in the pen is mighter than the sword?

For a long time pens (that is, literacy) was banned, gifted to only a select few people, generally male and a member of the church or nobility (or both)

It didn't really work in the long run.

Anything that allows other people to comunicate, to talk, to exchange ideas is a weapon.

For that matter, the pen is still my weapon of choice.

Answer 4

Sure they could be for the ideas and messages they convey and the fact that one would hurt if used to hit someone with. No, banning them would only want people to want them more, causing the price to increase and a black market for them. Let's keep them legal and usable by everyone.

Answer 5

OMIGOSH A FLYING TYPEWRITER!!! DUCK! (*slam*) Ouch! My head! *Concussion!*

Yes, I think they are dangerous weapons....especially when thrown at 90 miles per hour by a professional major-league baseball pitcher....but then again, so are baseballs....

But no, they should not be banned. How else would we type stuff? Or play baseball?

Answer 6

They should be sold only to people over 21. Just like handguns

Answer 7

if you flick a piece tape at someone its a dangerous weapons, lol you cant do anything anymore with out get a felony!!