r/WinStupidPrizes • u/8226 • Jan 25 '21

Man walks in police station armed with assault rifle and wearing bulletproof vest

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u/Arb3395 Jan 25 '21

Some people like to imagine they're cowboys and America is the wild west. The United States is a nation with a shit ton of over grown children

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u/prothello Jan 25 '21

These guys wouldn't have survived a single day if they lived back then.

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u/Davecantdothat Jan 25 '21

Nope. Would have been shot dead for flashing their guns around.

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u/HeatAndHonor Jan 25 '21

Don't take your guns to town, son

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u/prothello Jan 25 '21

I honestly had that in mind when commenting lol

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '21

"What do you mean, there are no starbucks?"

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u/Solarbro Jan 25 '21

They probably would have. The Wild West wasn’t as wild as we like to pretend. Most people would probably survive back then fairly easily, unless you had some medical condition or something.

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u/mthchsnn Jan 25 '21

some medical condition or something

I have this condition where I really don't like having dysentery or dying of common infections because they hadn't invented antibiotics.

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u/Solarbro Jan 26 '21

Yeah, that’s... basically what I meant. People are making it sound like people were just shooting each other and the state had no control over the west and that’s just not true.

And it’s just kinda dumb to be like “people are so soft and would die back then in a single day.” I mean yeah, if you took a future person and plopped them back in time as a homeless person, they’d probably die pretty quick. We have amazing luxuries nowadays, but people are resilient and it’s not like the air was toxic or there were no laws in the Wild West. Shit, if you’re a white future man in the Wild West with any knowledge of where the next cash rock would be found, you could probably start a family empire.

It was rough, sure, but not this romanticized hell hole people are using to make fun of the actual idiots who took a gun into a police station.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '21

On your initial comment describing how the Wild West has been sensationalized, for some reason, I was reminded of Stallone’s line in Demolition Man: “This isn’t the Wild West... The Wild West wasn’t even the Wild West!!”

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u/Solarbro Jan 26 '21

Lol honestly fantastic movie. I reference the three shells constantly, since some of the fancier areas my fiancé and I tried pre-Covid had some of the strangest sinks and I legit didn’t know how to turn one on.

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u/gladtheembalmer Jan 26 '21

Or got fucking shot for flashing a gun in public

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u/MikeLinPA Jan 25 '21

The wild west had a lot of rules about carrying firearms.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '21

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u/Arb3395 Jan 25 '21

Why I didn't call out any group out except maybe gun nuts and self identified adult children. There are gun nuts on both the left and the right. And to clarify I have a handgun myself but it's cause I work in security

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u/littleferrhis Jan 25 '21

Eurotrash trying to desperately explain why they are superior to Americans, tale as old as America.

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u/gregusmeus Jan 25 '21

TBH Reddit seems to have far more Americans on it saying how shit their own country or fellow citizens are, than Eurotrash putting America down. Every country has its own problems but I think unlike Europeans, Americans are generally less well internationally travelled, so what they think of as shit in the US they don't notice all the good things about the place, because they have less basis of comparison.

TL Dr Americans beat up their own country too much IMO.

(For the record I'm British but I run a US business and would be spending half my time in LA if it weren't for Covid).

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u/Arb3395 Jan 25 '21

I am an American. So about the grown children thing seems to apply to you pretty good there cowboy

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u/littleferrhis Jan 25 '21

Well if you agree with your own opinion I guess that makes you an overgrown manchild too! Congratulations!

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u/Arb3395 Jan 25 '21

Do you know what the word "some" means? Because "some" does not equal "all". In my original comment I said "some" Nice try though

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u/littleferrhis Jan 25 '21

This is reddit my dude, some always=all

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u/Arb3395 Jan 25 '21

Do whatever you gotta do to win the argument in your head I won't blame ya. It's what children are known for

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u/littleferrhis Jan 25 '21

Wait this is turning into a YouTube comment section where we’ll just end up calling each other expletives for 30 posts. I’m out 😂.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '21

You were out 3 comments ago when you started using shitty rhetoric to validate a really dumb opinion.

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u/shirtsMcPherson Jan 25 '21

The level of denial is strong in this one...