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EU attempt to sneak through new encryption-eroding law slammed by Signal, politicians
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What? That they can both be used for defense? Name something that couldn't ever be used for defense. Your comparison is pointless because the only trait they share is one which is also shared by pretty much everything else on the planet. Like beards, to bring up an earlier example.
They are both intended for defense.
I think it's safe to say guns are an offensive weapon