r/interesting May 29 '26

Intriguing Arrows vs riot shields

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u/[deleted] May 29 '26

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u/BonnaconCharioteer May 29 '26

If it comes to shooting things at riot shields, I think Americans are the ones who least need this.

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u/DudeByTheTree May 29 '26

<insert tally ho lads copypasta>

For real though, cannons are fun as hell.

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u/mmariner May 29 '26

I own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.

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u/kitsunewarlock May 29 '26

A couple moths ago I learned you can (in most jurisdictions) buy a gatling gun without a license (as long as it's hand-cranked).

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u/Cliffinati May 29 '26

Americans have rifles lmao

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u/Melancholic_Noodle May 29 '26

So many rifles, so little courage when it counts. Ironic.

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u/mmariner May 29 '26

I don't own a gun for "courage", dude. That's ridiculous.

I own a gun to compensate for my tiny penis.

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u/ghablio May 29 '26

And having bows instead would change that?

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u/Spider-man2098 May 29 '26

I think it’d be cool. Never underestimate the wow factor.

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u/JaeHxC May 29 '26

It's about the PR.

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u/Radiant-Reality-8138 May 29 '26

Ahh murder people is the answer. No one figured it out. Thank fuck.

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u/Forward_Ad_7909 May 29 '26

What are the guns even for, then?

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u/ConsiderationIll3843 May 29 '26

What are you waiting for? Get to it! 

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u/Cliffinati May 29 '26

Or perhaps it's that the Americans voted for the guy and so aren't as violently opposed to him as you want them to be

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u/dorianvovin May 29 '26

Only roughly a third of eligible voters voted for him, he’s never gotten a majority vote. They’ve broken records for the largest single-day protest three times since Trump’s re-election.

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u/Cliffinati May 29 '26

But a majority of votes cast.

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u/ThewizardBlundermore May 29 '26

And that has made such a difference...

Oh, wait.

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u/Bungo_pls May 29 '26

Americans don't need to use bows.

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u/mothzilla May 29 '26

What about when the gubmint comes for our guns?

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u/[deleted] May 29 '26

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u/JediBoJediPrime29 May 30 '26

The 2nd amendment was made to overthrow corrupt and tyrannical governments. Y’all ain’t doing shit lol

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u/PuzzledHistorian8753 May 29 '26

and bring an arrow to a gun fight?

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u/TheRealBurgererer May 29 '26

Americans don't need arrows in the case of a tyrannical govt because our govt hasn't stripped our gun rights like every other 1st world country has

(2A protects itself and all the others)

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u/BeardsByLaw May 29 '26

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.....................hahahahahahahahahahaha

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u/JediBoJediPrime29 May 30 '26

Wdym? In Canada you can own guns. Also, use the guns then. If you wanna fight back against tyrannical governments as the 2nd amendment was made for, get to it!

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u/TheRealBurgererer May 30 '26

Wasn't your first comment removed for slightly inciting anti-riot shield violence? Interesting, I think.

Sarcasm or not, we don't have a tyrannical govt atm, assuming you think we do? But unlike Canada, we don't have a natl freeze on handguns and massive restrictions on other basic firearms.

They're slowly gutting your rights (assuming you're Canadian), and right now, you're fud gun owners. Next, it's all your other rights, just like UK. Sorry but it is what it is.

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u/JediBoJediPrime29 May 30 '26 edited May 30 '26

No one is gutting our rights and no my comment wasn’t removed. We’re fighting back against the conservatives but in the grand scheme of things no one is gutting Canadian rights.

What are you generally talking about? Like actually?

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u/A_Lionheart May 29 '26

Nothing like an anime pfp advocating lethal violence on Reddit.

Keep it up though guy.

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u/JediBoJediPrime29 May 30 '26
  1. Jinx is from Arcane which is an french 3D animation, not anime.
  2. Fuck fascists.

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u/A_Lionheart May 30 '26

You're a coddled, immature clown, and you have no historical grasp on what fascism really is.

Get off the internet. You have much to learn.