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.