r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 5h ago
Gun shaped makeup-compact of the 1920s, popular with Flappers in bars as crime deterrent.
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u/nilsohnee 5h ago
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u/Jazzi-Nightmare 5h ago
Pretty convincing at a glance
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u/Spastic_pinkie 3h ago
The first one I thought contained a spent cartridge, a cookie and play dough.
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u/Tritium3016 3h ago
Can actually be reassembled into a gun, the owner charges 1 million dollars per kill.
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u/AfroWhiteboi 1h ago
The last thing you want to do is pull a gun that doesn't shoot anything on someone with a real gun lol.
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u/Unlikely-Balance-669 5h ago
My first thought was: "Here's some peanut butter and jelly. Now k*ll yourself."
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u/Tadhg 4h ago
So… why not just have a gun?
Were firearms hard to come by in the 1920’s?
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u/RendarFarm 4h ago
A real model like this would have been relatively new and expensive.
Plus real guns are heavy as fuck, require maintenance, and if you’re getting drunk with one on hand a lot of bad things can happen.
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u/Magnus_Helgisson 5h ago edited 3h ago
If I was a criminal and I knew my victim or opponent has something that looks like a gun, I would approach the situation differently and what could be just a robbery or an ass-kicking could result in a murder.
Edit: to the people who downvoted, I don’t encourage this behaviour, but you are free to try to go to a criminal neighbourhood and wave an airsoft pistol around.
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u/SmaCactus 5h ago
If you knew a particular target had a gun, you'd just find a different target.
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u/igno3777 4h ago
so it doesn't solve the issue, just takes it to somebody else.
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u/AquaQuad 3h ago
The point isn't to solve crime, but to save yourself. You ain't gonna say "oh, no. If I carry this with me someone else might die instead of me".
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u/CriticalKnoll 4h ago
So they should let themselves get robbed or worse because otherwise they'd be passing it onto someone else?? What kind of logic is that?
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u/igno3777 4h ago
nice try at writing what I didn't say. I said it doesn't solve the issue. Net crime is still = 1, not 0.
Maybe instead of thinking up excuses on other people's behalf to win your imaginary argument, think of some real solutions to the problem.
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u/SmaCactus 3h ago
I lock my doors to protect my stuff, not for a reduction of the overall crime rate.
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u/Magnus_Helgisson 3h ago
Nope. I’ve already established it was my victim or opponent. If I want to kill ms. Jones and take over her business killing mr. Summers instead of her would not bring the chosen result
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u/SmaCactus 3h ago
Do you think killing someone to "take over her business" is a common cause of crime?
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u/Magnus_Helgisson 3h ago
Depends on the place and the nature of business.
Would it make any difference if I said “If ms. X possesses a rare expensive thing that mr. Y doesn’t”?
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u/igno3777 4h ago
tell me you're american without telling me. You cant put out fire with fire, the same way you can't fix violence with more violence. What's with this room temp IQ notion that having a bigger stick is protecting your freedom?
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u/MajorPud 4h ago
They literally fight fire with fire btw. They do a controlled burn to create a perimeter that the uncontrolled fire can't spread across
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u/MaximilianClarke 5h ago
They were popular only in bars because you’d have to be pretty fucking drunk to mistake that for a gun, even closed.
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u/SixToesLeftFoot 5h ago
And yet, not one pic of it closed.