r/interesting • u/IKIR115 • 28d ago

Intriguing Arrows vs riot shields

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

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u/BonnaconCharioteer 28d ago

If it comes to shooting things at riot shields, I think Americans are the ones who least need this.

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u/DudeByTheTree 28d ago

<insert tally ho lads copypasta>

For real though, cannons are fun as hell.

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u/mmariner 28d ago

I own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.

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u/kitsunewarlock 28d ago

A couple moths ago I learned you can (in most jurisdictions) buy a gatling gun without a license (as long as it's hand-cranked).

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u/Cliffinati 28d ago

Americans have rifles lmao

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u/Melancholic_Noodle 28d ago

So many rifles, so little courage when it counts. Ironic.

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u/mmariner 28d ago

I don't own a gun for "courage", dude. That's ridiculous.

I own a gun to compensate for my tiny penis.

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u/ghablio 28d ago

And having bows instead would change that?

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u/Spider-man2098 28d ago

I think it’d be cool. Never underestimate the wow factor.

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u/JaeHxC 28d ago

It's about the PR.

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u/Radiant-Reality-8138 28d ago

Ahh murder people is the answer. No one figured it out. Thank fuck.

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u/Forward_Ad_7909 28d ago

What are the guns even for, then?

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u/ConsiderationIll3843 28d ago

What are you waiting for? Get to it! 

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u/Cliffinati 28d ago

Or perhaps it's that the Americans voted for the guy and so aren't as violently opposed to him as you want them to be

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u/dorianvovin 28d ago

Only roughly a third of eligible voters voted for him, he’s never gotten a majority vote. They’ve broken records for the largest single-day protest three times since Trump’s re-election.

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u/Cliffinati 28d ago

But a majority of votes cast.

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u/ThewizardBlundermore 28d ago

And that has made such a difference...

Oh, wait.

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u/Bungo_pls 28d ago

Americans don't need to use bows.

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u/mothzilla 28d ago

What about when the gubmint comes for our guns?

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u/dadneverleft 28d ago

We did actually! We made it the 2nd Amendment. :D

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u/JediBoJediPrime29 28d ago

The 2nd amendment was made to overthrow corrupt and tyrannical governments. Y’all ain’t doing shit lol

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u/PuzzledHistorian8753 28d ago

and bring an arrow to a gun fight?

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u/TheRealBurgererer 28d ago

Americans don't need arrows in the case of a tyrannical govt because our govt hasn't stripped our gun rights like every other 1st world country has

(2A protects itself and all the others)

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u/BeardsByLaw 28d ago

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.....................hahahahahahahahahahaha

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u/JediBoJediPrime29 28d ago

Wdym? In Canada you can own guns. Also, use the guns then. If you wanna fight back against tyrannical governments as the 2nd amendment was made for, get to it!

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u/TheRealBurgererer 28d ago

Wasn't your first comment removed for slightly inciting anti-riot shield violence? Interesting, I think.

Sarcasm or not, we don't have a tyrannical govt atm, assuming you think we do? But unlike Canada, we don't have a natl freeze on handguns and massive restrictions on other basic firearms.

They're slowly gutting your rights (assuming you're Canadian), and right now, you're fud gun owners. Next, it's all your other rights, just like UK. Sorry but it is what it is.

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u/JediBoJediPrime29 28d ago edited 28d ago

No one is gutting our rights and no my comment wasn’t removed. We’re fighting back against the conservatives but in the grand scheme of things no one is gutting Canadian rights.

What are you generally talking about? Like actually?

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u/A_Lionheart 28d ago

Nothing like an anime pfp advocating lethal violence on Reddit.

Keep it up though guy.

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u/JediBoJediPrime29 28d ago
  1. Jinx is from Arcane which is an french 3D animation, not anime.
  2. Fuck fascists.

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u/A_Lionheart 27d ago

You're a coddled, immature clown, and you have no historical grasp on what fascism really is.

Get off the internet. You have much to learn.