Ridiculous.
They were designed to kill. Ppl found other uses for them after the fact.
Their primary purpose is as a weapon.

...and I've never heard anyone at the range calling it a "tool."


By your logic you could call an anti-personnel mine a tool because it could also be used to create a big hole in something. I think you'd have a hard time finding ppl to say it's more of a tool than a weapon.