10 Awesome Movie Inventions (That Would Suck In Real Life)

4. Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Point-Of-View Gun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxo3Jy3p8zo

The Point-of-view gun is an excessively large gun that sways anyone towards your own points of view on absolutely anything from ice cream flavors to why Marxism is actually the cause of autism. And the best thing is that it does all that without bullets. It may be the ultimate tool for sore losers and for handling negotiation, but unfortunately, winning an forcibly winning a petty argument is one of the gun's few positives.

For the everyday person, the POV gun will make the world dumber. Its users will be incredibly egotistical and close-minded due to the ease in which to convince someone of your views. Give a gun to someone who is a bit unhinged and we'll get the next Scientology, but give the gun to people in positions of power and the world will be thrown into chaos.

To seize power, Presidents and Kings of every country will want to embargo these opinion-controlling guns whilst hoarding their own supply. This will lead to a worldwide crisis on how the gun will be regulated, which in turn will lead to under-the-table trading and illegal acquisition of these guns. Tensions will mount and wars will break out over these guns. So really, a gun that's designed to win arguments will do nothing but take conflicts onto a much bloodier level.

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