Kenosha Shooter Kyle Rittenhouse

[Sal]

Likewise, a gun has only one use value -- to kill people.

Nonsense.  A gun can be used to procure food, to target shoot, for trophy hunting, as a threat, etc.

With a bit of ingenuity, there is nothing that has only one use value. This why I sometimes use books to prop up a table, or a handy shoe to bang in a nail.

I do agree about the fetishism, thought.  There are plenty of people who own objects out of some sort of emotional or status value beyond that object's utility.

Boru

Yeah. The generalized use value of a gun is what someone uses it for. A hammer has better use value to hammer in nails into a wood plank than a shoe does, but I think you can't reasonable say the same about a gun at similar instances of different uses. Looking at other stuff than only use value, then guns carry with them more serious implications along with their use value, such as higher lethality use than, say, a knife.