Pretty sound reasoning here.

A lot of people in that thread have never seen Looney Tunes. If they did, they would have learned 3 vital facts about physics:

A finger in the barrel of a gun will stop a bullet and cause the gun to explode.
Gravity cannot effect you until you acknowledge that you are not on solid ground.
Being crushed by a heavy object falling from a great height (think and anvil or piano) will cause to to collapse like an accordion until you are re-inflated.

These are basic scientific facts everyone should know in the modern age.

Everyone knows William Hanna and Joseph Barbera were physicists first and animators/cartoonists second.
- Incredibly, they actually drew their cartoons based on observations in nature. The duck season/rabbit season bit commonly seen in the Bugs and Daffy cartoons, while exaggerated was based on true events.
- Award winning and physicists.
What's hilarious about this is that obstructed barrels actually can explode into ribbons just like the cartoons. A finger might not do it though, and not sure how many volunteers you'd get for a scientific test.

One person even noted how kids fingers are smaller and most adult’s fingers wouldn’t fit in the barrel.. lol. That’s what the pinky is for, it’s smol for a reason, duh.

You're not getting your pinky in an AR-15 barrel. .2 inch or half a centimeter basically.
- Just use your dick then
I mean we can simply let the kids handle the .22s, and adults like myself can stop the .45s and shotguns

Obligatory reminder that change.org has literally never accomplished social good, but it has made plenty of profit by selling harvested contact information and social connection information to advertisers.

Ken M vibes

The best part is them calling it a “shoot hole”

Alright, alright, the shurethra if you want to get technical
- I like the sound of that.
At least one american got an aneurysm reading that

This is so flawed it isn't even funny.

You need way more than 1,000,000 fingers. This is America after all. Even if you use all ten fingers, that's only like 9.9 million guns.

Love that you accounted for the fact that if you rounded up a million randos, statistically, some of them will be missing a finger or two.
- Thank you. Nuance, you know.
What about double barreled shotguns? Those are each going to require two fingers. I'm beginning to think the creators of this change.org petition haven't really thought this through.
Yeah unfortunately the only flaw in this plan is that they're simply aren't enough fingers for all the guns

Maybe ssj14Goku can stop that bullet, but no normal person can lol

there's at least 300 million guns in the US alone

I guess the guy didn't realize he's talking to literally Goku.

I'm torn on this one.

Part of me is convinced that just putting a flower in the barrel would stop all war. Then I'll make sure to put it in my hair before going to San Francisco, even though I totally forgot the first time.

Another part of me believes that I'm gonna have to solve the problem by getting so high on red agave shrooms that I can't feel the bullet and thus become an invincible berserker. Might sack York too, if there's time.

10/10 callback to smooth sharks at the end there.

Them: make fun of men by pretending to be dumb My dumb ass: have a good time being able to info dump

There's a certain spirit of online debate about trivial or nonsensical things like this that can best be understood as happening purely for the sport of it.

I think the important thing is to convince the person with the gun that the barrel will explode and kill them, not whether it does explode or not. That was what James Gardner did in the movie Support you local Sheriff.

One of my favorite westerns of all time!

IIRC for a some handguns this could actually work as long as you are actively pushing. Because if the barrel moves back a bit it will be out of battery blocking it from even firing.

I believe that's correct; but it's not all handguns, only a very, very few. Any handgun that's gas operated (and there are, like, five) is definitely still going to fire.

Troll's gonna troll

No, the bullet will stop them

this gives off "1 billion lions would beat 1 of every pokemon" type energy

You cannot block bullets unless you touch them first. See master Ken demonstrate: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Nd_2DGPaQ4U

Tap, tap, grab, throw it back.

I want to see someone stick their finger up the barrel of a desert eagle

The finger would stop it
ya cuz easier since the hole is bigger so you can use a bigger finger to stop bullet better
the finger would stop it

There is another way....

3d print fingers then epoxy them into all the guns

two in the pink, one in the stink and one to stop you from shooting your partner

/calvin peeing on guns

too much cartoon babysitting

Is this a critique on lemmy

just let them fuck around find out

r/whoosh?

No one actually believes this.

Finger will stop the bullet.
Of course no one believes the bullet won't stop

Maybe it's less about the need to be the smartest person in the room and more about peddling dangerous disinformation?

This is literally how the Republican party in the USA functions, by purposefully being so brain-dead that we spend all our time explaining why they're wrong and they just happily keep doing stupid fucking shit and expect us to protect them from themselves all the while. The Republicans regularly villainize "smart" people, the educated, academia, and "the ivory tower." They hate facts and evidence. So now being smart enough to try to stop stupid people from being stupid is a bad thing, huh?

It's not funny or clever, it's literally the same attitude behind conservatives trying to upset liberals. They would happily eat a pile of shit if they knew a liberal had to smell their breath. It's fucking insipid and stupid and in no way is funny or cute or what the fuck ever. There's zero ideology behind it except trying to upset other people, because they've got nothing the fuck else in their lives.

I don't care if it's a joke, they're scum. It's a "joke" in the same way "it was just a joke bro" comes from Nazis.

We literally had people eating parasite-killing horse-paste during COVID instead of taking actual fucking vaccines directed at the disease, and that happened because of bullshit exactly the fuck like this.

no, the finger would stop it
- Because it’s smooth in every direction.
  
  This is known.
- We can do this.
You misunderstand. The bullet would get to the finger and stop.
The dude was basically engaging with an Onion article. You can't save everybody.
Sure, but at some point you need to acknowledge that though you can lead a horse to water, you can’t stick their hoof in the barrel of a gun to stop a bullet.
- If the barrel is big enough for the hoof to fit snuggly it'll stop the bullet.
But the bullet would stop though because of the finger.
Looney toons = Nazi misinformation
Sorry champ, you absolutely had it coming with these replies to your comment
I think it's probably fair to say that suggesting that a finger in the barrel of a gun would stop a bullet is a least 10x, if not 100x, worse than the Nazis.
- barrel
  
  * shoot hole
Holy. Shit.
https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=false equivalency
- Website's broken, could you google it for me?