Most tools, if misused, have the potential to cause great harm
That does not make the tool itself dangerous. A normal sized adult could kill you with a hammer, but that same hammer is inert without an operator using it. Apples, on the other hand, can be quite dangerous. A person could be allergic or choke on an apple.
The point of all of this? Without someone taking some sort of action, tools are not inherently dangerous. A gun, sitting on a table, cannot do anything but sit there. It requires action my an individual to become dangerous. Your piece of fruit example is flawed. A piece of fruit can do nothing, but it will decompose. That decomposing piece of fruit may off-gas a noxious vapor that could be dangerous.
My response should not be viewed as sarcasm, but I feel it is my duty to expose misconceptions. We are splitting hairs here. Firearms do have great potential to do harm, when in the hands of someone that would seek to do such things or someone who is careless. That is why safety rules are so important.
Just my 2¢
Robert
They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security." Benjamin Franklin
No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms (within his own lands or tenements)." Thomas Jefferson: Draft Virginia Constitution (with his note added), 1776.
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