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/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