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Eh, they're basically putting on a play, in public, with cardboard "weapons" that won't look realistic. The problem is that they're trying to

Posted by mara Dec 9 '15, 13:14

show how "good guys with guns" can stop "bad guys with guns," yet it's obvious the only reason it will work the way they think it should is because it's scripted and rehearsed.

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well, I hope they're not planning on taking it to Broadway. -- nm - znufrii Dec 9, 13:25 1
- Campus: Shot In The Dark - directed by Julie Taymor. -- nm - Reagen Dec 9, 13:38
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- I don't think the cardboard weapons will look very realistic. -- nm - mara Dec 9, 13:32
- I hate to suggest it, but it presents an opportunity for assholes who might have already been planning something. -- nm - Dark Callisto vs. Evil Dead Dec 9, 13:24 3
  - I couldn't think of a way to say that without sounding like I was rooting for injuries. -- nm - TWuGbacca Dec 9, 13:31
  - I wsa thinking this but didn't want to say it. -- nm - Darth Sycor Dec 9, 13:29 1
    - me, too. -- nm - bb.-8 Dec 9, 13:31
Right. -- nm - Dark Callisto vs. Evil Dead Dec 9, 13:18
With cardboard weapons -- (edited) - Will Hunting Dec 9, 13:17 1
- Actually, in most simulations I've seen, they can't even get their gun out of the holster. -- nm - Dark Callisto vs. Evil Dead Dec 9, 13:19
... and because the "good" fake guns can't accidentally hurt innocent people running from the "bad" fake guns. -- nm - Landie Calrissian Dec 9, 13:16 3
- I feel like it could be subverted - a bunch of people walk through the "crossfire" and lay down shot -- nm - Reagen Dec 9, 13:33 2
  - Or people "shooting" the good guys with guns with their own cardboard weapons. "Hey, we're just demonstrating that there's no way to tell!" -- nm - mara Dec 9, 13:36
  - oh, someone should do this. -- nm - Landie Calrissian Dec 9, 13:35

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