“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
    121·
    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.

  • over_clox@lemmy.world
    122·
    15 hours ago

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

  • 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.

  • Arghblarg@lemmy.ca
    103·
    15 hours ago

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

    • Che Banana@beehaw.org
      72·
      15 hours ago

      You know how insane this looks to someone who was born and raised in that culture?

      Fucking nuts.

      • PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        14 hours ago

        Who are you people? I’m not even a huge hunter or anything, but ammo for sale in a grocery store is pretty mundane in places where hunting is common. Have you ever left your suburb?

        • araneae@beehaw.org
          33·
          14 hours ago

          It is real fucking off kilter to have these things in a country where children are mass murdered by bullets so often. The bullets were already legally purchasable but putting them in a vending machine really makes it obvious that in this country the Almighty Gat is as available and ubiquitous as Coca Cola. We’re a sick people willing to allow another middle man between us and the sale of some bullets so we can have it dispensed out of a cool vending machine like in my favorite action-adventure roleplaying video game title Cyberpunk 2077.

          • PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
            4·
            14 hours ago

            Who is “we.” And vending machines have been available since before your favorite video game depicted them. I had a vending machine for shotgun shells in my high school like 25 years ago. We did skeet shooting and if you needed a few more rounds you could go buy some ammo instead of having to go off campus for it. The whole thing is extremely mundane.

            e: The vending machine was actually an old cigarette vending machine heh.

            • araneae@beehaw.org
              21·
              11 hours ago

              Perhaps theres a difference between your shotgun shell vending machine in school (still fucked up; if the rounds were for extracurriculars why did they charge you for it?) 25 years ago and the current world with its bi-monthly mass child sacrifices to Mammon. Different contexts. Now such a thing is definitely gaudy and flagrently disregards the countrys gun violence problem and how many people are dying so these gun industry fucks can get their jollies.

              Edit: you conveniently misconstrued a factoid from your youth to make my argument against out of control gun culture seem fallacious and I don’t love that.

              • SoylentBlake@lemm.eeEnglish
                1·
                10 hours ago

                Dude, every aspect of every extra curricular is charged to the student. Football costs parents hundreds. Schools don’t have the budget to pay their teachers, they aren’t doing shit for students that’s not legislated