Thank you, I’m glad to see someone else making this point. Like you said, there’s plenty about this that’s seriously fucked up already, the suppressor is not the problem.

But most people only know about this stuff from Hollywood (not their fault, if anything I’m grateful that the average Lemmy user has little personal knowledge of firearms, the world would be better if everyone could be so ignorant), and thinks that suppressors / “silencers” are some kind of devious tool only used by people looking to do surrupticious murders, because that’s how they’re always portrayed.