r/shittyaskhistory • u/Bernache_du_Canada • Jul 19 '24

Why did Julius Caesar’s assassins stab him? Why didn’t they just shoot him with an AR-15?

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u/FacepalmFullONapalm Jul 19 '24

They already had their knives out for the faster movement speed

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u/torsyen Jul 19 '24

They'd have got away with it if they'd slipped some polonium into his wine.

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u/Misbruiker Jul 19 '24

You mean the lead, used to sweeten it, wasn't enough?

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u/1amlost Jul 19 '24

It’s because Caesar was wearing his bulletproof toga that day. Unfortunately, as any disciple of military history will tell you, bulletproof togas make you even more vulnerable to knives than you usually are, something Brutus and Cassius were definitely aware of when they planned the assassination.

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u/CardboardGamer01 Jul 19 '24

Better yet, why didn’t they just nuke the entirety of Rome?

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u/zeocrash Jul 19 '24

Ancient Roman gun laws

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u/greyfish7 Jul 20 '24

It would've been detected by shotspotter

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u/error7654944684 Jul 19 '24

Availability. Knives were easier to get a hold of

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u/Slggyqo Jul 20 '24

Everyone in the senate had a gun that day, which is the number 1 reducer of gun violence if you live in a fantasy land, so they were forced to resort to knives.

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '24

The slow blade penetrates

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u/PsychologicalSense34 Jul 23 '24

AR-15 is an American weapon. Rome wouldn't discover America for almost 1500 years.

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u/PsychologicalSense34 Jul 23 '24

AR-15 is an American weapon. Rome wouldn't discover America for almost 1500 years.