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[FallacyofUrist]

If the average American would look at it and see a gun, then it's a gun. It's still a gun even if it can't be fired, so boof. If an average American wouldn't recognize it as a gun, it stays. Yes, because it would still be recognized as a gun.

Some would(like a scope), but most wouldn't as they wouldn't be recognized as essential parts of the gun. It's not like most snipers use iron sights rather than a scope(on the other hand, there was the White Death, but you probably haven't heard of him).

[Strife26]

So, if we take the average American to be equal in intelligence to the average American cop, we're looking at temporary vanishing of all cell phones, toy firearms, wallets, and bananas.

If we include the TSA, we can add insulin pumps to the list.


The economic ramifications would not be inconsiderable.

[misko27]

If it only depends on whether it looks like a gun, can we disguise it? Or paint it lime green or something?

[Egan_BW]

Take over the world during those thirty day using guns cleverly disguised as crossbows. Without guns, nobody will be able to fight back!

[Imic]

Step 1: Go to my old school, go to the chemistry teacher, find the other science teacher because she was the worst teacher in the school, and explain to them what's going on.
Step 2: Cure cancer

[FallacyofUrist]

If it only depends on whether it looks like a gun, can we disguise it? Or paint it lime green or something?

If it would be recognized as a gun, poof. If you can disguise it, it might stay if the disguise is good enough.

[Neonivek]

you learn that a magnitude 11 earthquake will strike California one year from now

Dear goodness... I am not sure there is anything I could do. I mean Magnitude 11 would mean California is gone and the USA would be in shambles.

[inteuniso]

I know right? I feel like the Yellowstone supervolcano, massive asteroids, really any massive world-rending events are better (wow I'm really no better than the government) covered up/hidden/obfuscated/publicly denied. Sending everyone into a mass panic just ensures more people dying & it's not like we can do anything to prevent the disaster anyways.

[FallacyofUrist]

New hypothetical. You come to consciousness holding an unloaded pistol in front of a corpse filled with bullets from that pistol. What do?

[Criptfeind]

New hypothetical. You come to consciousness holding an unloaded pistol in front of a corpse filled with bullets from that pistol. What do?

Turn myself in because I'm having some sorta of extremely serious mental and probably physical health issue and just killed someone?

[FallacyofUrist]

New Hypothetical!

You notice a bomb in your basement. If you didn't have a basement, you have one now. The bomb's display says it's going to go off in 30 minutes.

What do?

[Neonivek]

Ok...I clear everyone out of my house and then call the police and inform my immediate neighbors.

To admit though given that the bomb will probably blow up my house I probably should have taken my laptop... But this is my wellbeing...

[IcyTea31]

First of all, call the police. My local police don't have an EOD unit, but they do have a protocol for it that involves calling such specialists from elsewhere. They'd probably tell me not to touch the bomb, so I wouldn't and would instead evacuate the house and neighbours while waiting for them, though I'm not sure if they could reach me in 30 minutes. It would most likely go off, causing material damage, but I'm fairly certain my insurance covers it (assuming this is a bomb that occurred naturally and nobody can be blamed for it), though the company would wait for the police to investigate the case.

I don't trust my own abilities to disarm a bomb, and while there are some explosives experts of the private sector in town, I doubt the police would actually call them for assistance.

[exdeath]

New Hypothetical!

You are the president of the country you were born at (or the one with power to answer this question), and russia* say "become part of russia or we will throw atomic bombs at your country", do you:
A) Accept the deal
or
B)Don't accept the deal and so russia will bomb you.

*if you are from russia, the country that will bomb you is USA.

Some rules:
1-If you tell them you will bomb then back if they do what they say and then and pick choice B, they will still bomb you.

2-If you bomb them first and pick A then won't bomb you back

3-If you bomb them first and pick B they will still bomb you.

EDIT: Its impossible to fix all holes, you could just:
A- not answer the question and so at the same time not be bombed or annexed.
B- Fake your own kidnap to be able to not answer the question and so not be bombed or annexed.

[Neonivek]

To my knowledge mutually ensured destruction is the best dissuasion device and people have argued that the advent of Nukes is in fact one of the main contributors to our world's current state of relative peace.