“We knew we had something special, but we didn’t know that it was going to explode like that,” said American Rounds CEO Grant Magers.
  • Erasmus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    15 hours ago

    Waiting to see when this will make the news that one is posted in a US school building.

    • fulcrummed@lemmy.world
      101·
      14 hours ago

      Image of a “good guy with a gun” trying to stop an active shooter; asking everyone running past him if they have change for a dollar as with increasing urgency, he keeps trying to smooth out and feed a crinkled dollar bill into the machine that keeps spitting out.

    • PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
      12·
      14 hours ago

      It won’t. Many Americans drift through life in ignorance and even if confronted with something they don’t know, won’t incorporate or react to those things unless they are told how to react. You see it all the time with Trump. When he does something that has been happening since Clinton it’s suddenly a big deal and outrageous, when Obama did something that was perfectly normal since Reagan, it was suddenly beyond the pale and evidence of a commie plot.

      When an ammo vending machine was installed in my high school 25 years ago no one noticed or cared, but if I went and took a picture of it today and posted it on twitter with some provoative text like “I can’t even…” there would immediately be some kind of outrage about it for some reason.

  • DharkStare@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    14 hours ago

    “We knew we had something special, but we didn’t know that it was going to explode like that,” Magers said.

    I don’t want any ammo vending machines if they’re going to explode /s

    On a serious note, I’m surprised these weren’t already available. Now we just need a gun vending machine and I can feel like I’m living in a Borderlands game.

  • over_clox@lemmy.world
    112·
    15 hours ago

    Meanwhile, they’ll end up banning pencils and pens in schools, because they could be used as shanks.

  • Arghblarg@lemmy.ca
    73·
    14 hours ago

    Hey US… you are insane. You know how this looks to people who haven’t been raised in your culture, right? right?