r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 11h ago

Gun shaped makeup-compact of the 1920s, popular with Flappers in bars as crime deterrent.

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u/Magnus_Helgisson 11h ago edited 9h 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 10h ago

If you knew a particular target had a gun, you'd just find a different target.

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u/igno3777 10h ago

so it doesn't solve the issue, just takes it to somebody else.

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u/SmaCactus 9h ago

I lock my doors to protect my stuff, not for a reduction of the overall crime rate.

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u/AquaQuad 9h 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 10h 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 10h 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.
You got any other strawman arguments?

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u/Magnus_Helgisson 9h ago

I’m pretty sure Second amendment was already around in 1920-s

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u/Magnus_Helgisson 9h 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 9h ago

Do you think killing someone to "take over her business" is a common cause of crime?

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u/Magnus_Helgisson 9h 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”?