• bthest@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    No but anyone with a a cheap vintage military rifle with 2000 yard/meter iron sights could reek havoc by lobbing a few bullets at like a mortar from extreme range. Wouldn’t do any damage but eventually someone would realize that those loud cracks are bullets and they would have to evacuate every time. It would be a massive expensive pain in the ass. That might put some cold water on the market.

    They would have to start building these things inside the Nevada test range if enough people took up this new hobby.

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      2 days ago

      You remember a few years ago when some random town in North Carolina made the national news because some Proud Boys shot out the substation because there was a drag show at a local downtown theater?

      I’m from there.

      What I learned in those four days without refrigeration or air conditioning is that substations aren’t bulletproof.

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        Yep, I’m from NC too. When shits gets real it’s going to be normal to not have water, power and internet because we sold all of our critical infrastructure to parasites who extort us but won’t spend a dime on redundancy. People really don’t understand how easy it would be to shut the country down if a critical boiling point is reached.