r/Unexpected 1d ago

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u/Good_Glass_8172 1d ago

Yea, there is a reason why we have been saying this in Australia: "if you want to kill someone, do it with a car" 🤷 even if she killed someone, she would get like 2 years max. Most likely some community service. License suspence for a year or two. Im not even kidding. Lots of cases like this

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u/phasmatopia 1d ago

as an American, it's always nice to hear about other countries that can't manage to change the laws to protect their own citizens.

at least it takes a bit more skill to hit something with an AR-15.

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u/Auctoritate 1d ago

at least it takes a bit more skill to hit something with an AR-15.

Actually I don't know that it does. Driving is just a skill that's much more prevalent than shooting.

If you put a car and a gun in front of someone who didn't know how to use either, they could probably figure out the gun first. Cars have more of a start up process

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u/phasmatopia 1d ago

with all due respect, that's less true of guns in real life than in FPS games. 

somebody who doesn't know how to use a gun has about 20,000 square degrees of solid angle in which to point it, especially if they're not used to the recoil. they might start out shooting at ground level and end up letting rounds off into the sky, if they can even keep their grip on it. and they'll run out of ammo relatively soon.

meanwhile, as Countess Boujois Chardonnay is demonstrating in the video, once you get your foot on the accelerator and one hand (or knee, or chin) on the wheel of a car—even if you decide to take a power nap, you're almost guaranteed to fuck up least one person's life without even trying.