that could just shoot a wave of energy and instantly kill you, no noise, no lights, no sparks, no nothing, just pull the trigger, you fall over dead.
Would this actually deter people during a armed confrontation or would it actually make things way worse?
Considering what we know of supposed alien civilizations
>they have tools that can remove elements from from things, I.E. all the gold from a rock
>we have no clue how it works but they do it (supposedly)
>the Tall Whites (supposedly) have a little wand they carry around that they use in self defense that can do things like sap all the potassium from your body and ragdoll your ass
>on their home planets they live largely entirely peaceful lives coexisting with their environments and providing everything for themselves for free
Now there’s a high chance that all of that is BS, but I say all that to say this; if there exists sufficient technology to produce weaponry of that capacity, culture would eventually reach a point where conflict is fruitless and people largely wouldn’t frick with each other because they’d get deleted.
That’s all predicated on that technology getting out into the mainstream, then militaries and people using it to devastate one another. Until eventually society collapses and a new one is formed or society evolves around the new weaponry.
How the hell do we “know” any of that? It’s sci-fi masturbation
>sci fi and fantasy gays think their mindworld is real, case number 62738486482
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I'm sure this sounds primitive, but part of the reason we use guns is because they are loud and scary, cause gory wounds that are painful and prone to infection, and can leave you lingering for hours, days or even weeks before you finally die, as well as permanently crippling or maiming you.
There is no 'warning shot' with that kind of weapon, it doesn't actually deter violent response. You have no way of knowing whether that person fell unconscious, tripped, or is fricking with you somehow. Even if you knew for a fact that it killed someone, you'd have to take their pulse and verify it, you would literally have to shoot twice before it even registered that the weapon was in fact lethal or even dangerous.
Its a piss poor deterrent.
>but part of the reason we use guns is because they are loud and scary, cause gory wounds that are painful and prone to infection,
Guns wound by stabbing with bullets which causes debilitating trauma and fatal bleeding. Mutilation, chronic pain and infection are NOT part of firearm design.
>instantly kill you
>just pull the trigger, you fall over dead
So, the perfect suicide weapon? You say "you" -- this would seem to indicate the operator of the weapon -- are killed when "you" pull the trigger. Interesting. Let's talk about your latent suicidal ideations, OP.
To answer your question, it wouldn't deter people during an armed confrontation any more than a gun or knife would, because people often don't THINK, and if you point a wunderwaffen at someone, something which is commonly known to never miss and always kill, chances are that dumb son of a b***h is just not gonna care about that at all, and still come at you, angry like, heedless of your perfect weapon, certain of death in the face of it but unheeding, truly careless, perhaps gambling on some fluke of luck sparing him from certain death, or more likely just not giving a frick at all about that, and just wanting to put the hurt on you. You actually have to kill someone in front of other people in order to get those other people to leave you be in many situations. Theoretical knowledge does not affect the emotional animal's tactical choices; it simply attacks.
Does body armor and solid objects stop it?
i mean, you're stipulating for us that your death ray apparatus is instantly fatal and operates imperceptibly, right? so how does anyone know to regard it as a lethal weapon?
Is it possible to devise a defense against it? Or does it defeat everything without losing effectiveness?
>unknown death ray
>what defense?
You would have to specify the mechanism of how the death ray works to devise a defense. If it uses radiation, then radiation shielding would be the defense.
We have this. It’s called a sniper
>inb4 it makes le noise
Don’t worry about it
>nerve gas
Lurk moar you goddam homosexual
>would it be a deterrent???
absolutely not, most of us upright gorillas are absolutely fricking moronic, i mean shit eating, dog fricking, rock banging morons who are simply biologically hardwired to completely ignore any rational ideas once we feel spooked scared angry or maybe even just sleepy
people can just not get enough sleep or water for one day and they get pissy and it leads to them getting shot to death on the side of some nothing highway in Arkansas
Imagine inner city youths and tiktokers in possession of a handheld death ray, all those "prank" videos of unsuspecting passerbys being zapped to death
People don't fear firearms because they're loud.
People fear firearms because they don't want to get shot and die. Knives are scary too and don't make noise.
>Would this actually deter people during a armed confrontation or would it actually make things way worse?
The deterrence against an individual would be the same, but you don't have a group of morons scattering because they heard gunshots. Gunshot noise is a warning/alert to people who don't need to visually see the weapon or person being shot.
sounds like it would make a bad self defence weapon, but a great warfare weapon / special forces thing
Assuming it had all the benefits of accuracy, range, portability, cover penetration, ammo capacity to be a military weapon, yes it would be a useful weapon of warfare.
Obviously a silent weapon is not good for riot control, and you probably don't want to use a lethal weapon for riot control anyways.
Would you want a silent weapon to kill multiple home intruders? Maybe not, because you would hope the noise would tell the other intruders to withdraw. However there is personal risk in alerting intruders of your lethal measure, as well as personal risk of not alerting intruders so they continue their (dangerous to you) intrusion unaware that their accomplice has been killed.
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i suppose i was thinking of on the street self defence rather than home defence lol, good point
im not rural, so i would hope that gunshots would alert other people to call the police, so i could keep my attention on the situation rather than a phone call
Wr already have something like this, OP. It just takes a while for the target to fall over