Not green, but sort of feels green

42 points

Anon should just buy a 3rd gun and take it apart

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Anon is slowing disarming America

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Can you imagine if that was your superpower. You just walk around and not machines, not tools, but guns specifically get disassembled in your presence.

Reminds me of a Nancy Kress story about a group of suburban terrorists who go around with a “dissambler” (nanotech) that erodes machinery in order to undermine a nanny state government that tries to keep a lid on technology. It eventually comes down to an arms race between different tech factions, and the idea of government is dissolved completely as the world descends (ascends?) into an anarchic-commune type situation.

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Can you imagine if that was your superpower. You just walk around and not machines, not tools, but guns specifically get disassembled in your presence.

Should send that person on a tour around the entire country and then appoint them ambassador to Israel. Especially if their superpower extends to other weapons as well.

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There’s a Ray Bradbury short story called A Piece of Wood about a man who invents a device that rapidly decomposes any modern weapon in his vicinity. It doesn’t end well for him.

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4 points

What’s the name of the story?

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I think it’s the third or fourth book in the Beggars in Spain series

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2 points

Christopher Walken in Seven Psychopaths, but he’s a reality straightener.

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22 points

Why have one problem when you can just as easily have two problems of the exact same kind? Efficiency, if you ask me.

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And if you now fix one of the problems, you resolved two problems at once. Efficiency!

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I see you assumed that two exact copies of the same problem required the exact same solution for both. If you will, allow me to show you where you went completely wrong.

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It does look kind of complicated, but with less than 100 parts how hard could it be?

https://www.americanrifleman.org/media/bywncijv/2021swmodel29rev_parts-487x1024.jpg

Probably a fake post (b/c 4Chan), but maybe they got stuck at a specific section of the rebuild?

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That’s a lot more parts than I expected tbh

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I intended to make a joke about leaving the screws out, but there are only 5. (Plus nuts and bolts.)

10 springs though. A lot more than I anticipated.

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3 points

He probably lost piece 69 and forgot to nut

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I used to do a lot of repair stuff and I posted a lot on the associated subreddits and stack exchanges related to the topic. I’ve seen a lot people with things much less complex than this post pictures like “how do I put it back together??? They’d get detailed instructions from people on how to do it, then post angry replies that people basically weren’t doing it for them and (I assume) give up

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it doesn’t look that complicated but I guess I’d have to have been born white in the states to have disassembled a real gun

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While white people do own a lot of guns, so do non-white people in the U.S. it’s something like half the white people, and a 1/3 of the non -white.

Which is funny to think about with neighborhoods. If there are 125 houses in your neighborhood, odds are you are surrounded by 50 guns before you leave the neighborhood. Obviously it doesn’t always work that way because some neighborhoods are less likely to have them. (125 was the number in my neighborhood growing up, so I guess why that’s the number that popped in my head first)

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You’re talking about the number of people who have a gun, but not talking about the number of guns that they have!

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Well I do keep 6 under my pillow, 1 felt lumpy so I just flip them around trigger to trigger and it makes your pillow feel level.

Edit to put /s

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You dont have to be White to own a firearm here you race-baiting asshat.

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sure but then the cops will shoot your dog or your kid.

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They don’t care if black people have a gun to do that

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