Pretty sound reasoning here.

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• TheLowestStone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  A lot of people in that thread have never seen Looney Tunes. If they did, they would have learned 3 vital facts about physics:

  1. A finger in the barrel of a gun will stop a bullet and cause the gun to explode.

  2. Gravity cannot effect you until you acknowledge that you are not on solid ground.

  3. Being crushed by a heavy object falling from a great height (think and anvil or piano) will cause to to collapse like an accordion until you are re-inflated.

  These are basic scientific facts everyone should know in the modern age.

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  • spicytuna62@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Everyone knows William Hanna and Joseph Barbera were physicists first and animators/cartoonists second.

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    • Kalkaline@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Incredibly, they actually drew their cartoons based on observations in nature. The duck season/rabbit season bit commonly seen in the Bugs and Daffy cartoons, while exaggerated was based on true events.

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    • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Award winning and physicists.

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  • Fox@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What’s hilarious about this is that obstructed barrels actually can explode into ribbons just like the cartoons. A finger might not do it though, and not sure how many volunteers you’d get for a scientific test.

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• JaymesRS@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  One person even noted how kids fingers are smaller and most adult’s fingers wouldn’t fit in the barrel… lol. That’s what the pinky is for, it’s smol for a reason, duh.

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  • doingthestuff@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You’re not getting your pinky in an AR-15 barrel. .2 inch or half a centimeter basically.

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    • hydration9806@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Just use your dick then

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  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I mean we can simply let the kids handle the .22s, and adults like myself can stop the .45s and shotguns

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• ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Obligatory reminder that change.org has literally never accomplished social good, but it has made plenty of profit by selling harvested contact information and social connection information to advertisers.

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• QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Ken M vibes

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• Rolder@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The best part is them calling it a “shoot hole”

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  • FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Alright, alright, the shurethra if you want to get technical

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    • jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I like the sound of that.

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  • BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    At least one american got an aneurysm reading that

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• Professorozone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This is so flawed it isn’t even funny.

  You need way more than 1,000,000 fingers. This is America after all. Even if you use all ten fingers, that’s only like 9.9 million guns.

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  • spicytuna62@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Love you accounted for the fact that if you rounded up a bunch of randos, statistically, some of them may be missing a finger or two.

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    • Professorozone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Thank you. Nuance, you know.

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  • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What about double barreled shotguns? Those are each going to require two fingers. I’m beginning to think the creators of this change.org petition haven’t really thought this through.

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  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah unfortunately the only flaw in this plan is that they’re simply aren’t enough fingers for all the guns

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• Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Maybe ssj14 Goku can stop that bullet, but no normal person can lol

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• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m torn on this one.

  Part of me is convinced that just putting a flower in the barrel would stop all war. Then I’ll make sure to put it in my hair before going to San Francisco, even though I totally forgot the first time.

  Another part of me believes that I’m gonna have to solve the problem by getting so high on red agave shrooms that I can’t feel the bullet and thus become an invincible berserker. Might sack York too, if there’s time.

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• ceenote@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I guess the guy didn’t realize he’s talking to literally Goku.

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• BluesF@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  10/10 callback to smooth sharks at the end there.

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• Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I think the important thing is to convince the person with the gun that the barrel will explode and kill them, not whether it does explode or not. That was what James Gardner did in the movie Support you local Sheriff.

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  • bluewing@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    One of my favorite westerns of all time!

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• CptBread@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  IIRC for a some handguns this could actually work as long as you are actively pushing. Because if the barrel moves back a bit it will be out of battery blocking it from even firing.

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  • HelixDab2@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I believe that’s correct; but it’s not all handguns, only a very, very few. Any handgun that’s gas operated (and there are, like, five) is definitely still going to fire.

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• Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Troll’s gonna troll

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  • lugal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No, the bullet will stop them

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• webpack@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  this gives off “1 billion lions would beat 1 of every pokemon” type energy

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• vga@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You cannot block bullets, unless you touch them first. See master Ken demonstrate: www.youtube.com/shorts/Nd_2DGPaQ4U

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• AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I want to see someone stick their finger up the barrel of a desert eagle

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  • SuperNinjaFury@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The finger would stop it

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  • turddle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    ya cuz easier cuz the hole is bigger so you can use a bigger finger to stop bullet better

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Maybe it’s less about the need to be the smartest person in the room and more about peddling dangerous disinformation?

  This is literally how the Republican party functions, by purposefully being so brain-dead that we spend all our time explaining why they’re wrong and they just happily keep doing stupid fucking shit and expect us to protect them from themselves all the while.

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  • Enkers@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No, the finger would stop it.

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    • tacosanonymous@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Because it’s smooth in every direction.

      This is known.

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    • jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      We can do this.

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  • todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You misunderstand. The bullet would get to the finger and stop.

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  • dwindling7373@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The dude was basically engaging with an Onion article. You can’t save everybody.

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  • JaymesRS@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Sure, but at some point you need to acknowledge that though you can lead a horse to water, you can’t stick their hoof in the barrel of a gun to stop a bullet.

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    • WorkIsSlow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      If the barrel is big enough for the hoof to fit snuggly it’ll stop the bullet.

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  • HowManyNimons@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    But the bullet would stop though because of the finger.

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  • ddplf@szmer.info ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Sorry champ, you absolutely had it coming with these replies to your comment

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  • WorkIsSlow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Looney toons = Nazi misinformation

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  • silasmariner@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think it’s probably fair to say that suggesting that a finger in the barrel of a gun would stop a bullet is a least 10x, if not 100x, worse than the Nazis.

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    • HowManyNimons@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      barrel

      • shoot hole

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  • Telodzrum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Holy. Shit.

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  • Sylaran@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    letmegooglethat.com/?q=false equivalency

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    • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Image

      Website’s broken, could you google it for me?

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• Armand1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  r/whoosh?

  No one actually believes this.

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  • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Finger will stop the bullet.

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  • programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Of course no one believes the bullet won’t stop

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• Fleur_@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There is another way…

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• Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  too much cartoon babysitting

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• TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  3d print fingers then epoxy them into all the guns

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• ngn@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  just let them fuck around find out

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• WillFord27@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Is this a critique on lemmy

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