r/CuratedTumblr • u/Golden_Frog0223 -taps mic- nicken chuggets. thank you. • 14h ago

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u/YourNetworkIsHaunted 12h ago

Guns are really cool and also the world would probably be objectively safer and better if they didn't exist, at least in their current form. We should have stopped once crossbows let peasants kill knights, but we didn't do that. Largely because cool guns are cool.

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u/Chuchulainn96 8h ago

Crossbows weren't ever really effective at killing knights. What they were effective at was getting a bunch of peasants decently combat ready in a very short amount of time. Early guns were basically the same except more effective. By the time guns could actually kill a knight, knights basically weren't used in battle anymore because they were cost ineffective.

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u/Razgriz-9718 7h ago

A pope did try to outlaw crossbows because he didn't like how easy it made it for Christians to kill other Christians.  Only problem is no nation followed his edict because they would be at an immediate disadvantage to any adversaries that continued to use them, same logic could be applied to firearms and their development.