Hold on. You're saying this like it came out of a vacuum yet it was actually a reply to you where you said:
First off, a gun shooting at a paper target as an example of a "tool" is pretty arguable as holes in paper serves no necessary function. If anything you should have said then that a gun's primary function is leisure/sport, but whatever (also shooting at targets is "shooting something").
Secondly and most importantly, you said right there that a gun is first and foremost a tool and is
not inherently a weapon. So you're saying the main purpose of a gun is to shoot at paper targets, like above actually shooting at living things? You sure this is how most guns are used? I mean the army carries guns just in case they, what?; Want to put some paper in a binder folder? That's what you're saying right there when you say "not inherently".
My issue is that your original claim is just so blatantly a bad faith argument. Come on man, you don't actually believe this yourself and
statistics say that's not the case.
It's protection, dude. It's to maybe shoot people with.