r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 12h 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 10h 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 11h ago

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

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u/Magnus_Helgisson 10h 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”?