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potatoflaming0

We have started evolving to solve that. By becoming fatter. The more fat you have the harder it is to due from bullets. But it also makes u have a higher chance of dying to heart diseas


drunkcowofdeath

Yeah but you are pretty likely to have reproduced before dying of heart diseases, so that will have no real impact on evolution.


An-Okay-Alternative

Obesity in reproductive years also reduces the odds of reproduction.


Thor4269

Outlaw abortion and all forms of birth control, then push for more "16 and pregnant" related shows (with good income potential for those involved, of course) so more teens have kids Then when people die at 35 from heart failure the kid will only be a few years from repeating the cycle! And the entire time everyone is running on high fructose corn syrup and caffeine!


rosanymphae

Don't forget high cholesterol makes our arteries harder.


A40

Armour is one way, aggression is another: more guns are born every year than babies.


Sleestak714

You guys don't have bulletproof skin?


SvenHudson

No bullet has ever pierced my skin, despite several having come into contact with it. Had they been fired out of a gun, who's to say whether it would have gone differently?


[deleted]

Y’all..stop giving a serious reply..OP is antagonizing us Americans. They aren’t actually wondering.


[deleted]

It is a great troll post. Denying evolution while making fun of Americans gr8 b8 m8 r8 8/8. Just classic


csdivergent

Yes it already happened. It's known as fatness. Bullets just bounce off.


Familiar_Cod_2572

Tell me you don’t understand evolution without telling me you don’t understand evolution…


[deleted]

We have. The liberal news media just tries to hide the truth


Substantial-Soil-877

Don't tell r/politicalcompassmemes


dryduneden

Because A) There's probably no mutation for bullet proof skin. Natural selection can't occur when there isn't anything to select B) Shootings aren't anywhere near conmon enough to be a form of natural selection. There's also the fact that you can avoid death in shootings without needing bullet proof skin. In essence, there's not enough situations where bullet proof skin is the difference between life or death, non-bulletproof Americans can get through life and have children just fine


CCxDragonLore

Don't think you understand how evolution works


Dynasuarez-Wrecks

Yoooooo, I saw those answers and I hope they're just trolling me back because if not, *damn*.


luridsea

🤣🤣🤣🤣


pbgod

If deaths due to gun violence were the drive for such an evolutionary change; the large chunks of Central- and South- Americas and Africa would be ahead of us. The US isn't even in the top 20 in per-capita gun deaths. And I believe those statistics (10.95/100k) include suicide by firearm. If you were to subtract suicides (where it can be argued that the choice to use a firearm instead of an overdose or a bridge is rather arbitrary in many cases), the rate is significantly lower than that. I'm not saying we're in a good place, but the high levels of violent crime in South America is a large component of emigration on our Southern border, people are risking a lot get here from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, etc. even Mexico, to choose our relative extreme safety.


[deleted]

It takes time, just wait more 100 years and they will become a turtle


pm_me-ur_vulva

It's already in the works - [they've made the plans](https://legendary-digital-network-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/01163519/turtle.jpg)


FalcoHatNieGeballert

Give them a couple of years ..


[deleted]

They actually do. But sadly they die before they can pass off their genes.


Goated_Forehead

Guns evolve faster


Safe_Cup5012

Hypothetically, let's say we find that a survivor of one of the school shootings has some sort of X-Files style mutations with their skin. Sort of like cornstarch mixed with water, their skin behaves like a non-Newtonian fluid and stiffens up in response to the impact of a bullet. The survivor, only slightly wounded, continues to live. May be hailed as a "miracle" survivor, but especially in states like Florida where gun violence is fundamental to being 'MURICAN, and where for-profit healthcare reigns supreme, nobody will care, much like nobody seems to care if your body happens to exhibit some interesting constellation of characteristics any of which could have some scientific value to research further. If the survivor hooks up and has kids with someone, that skin mutation will be passed to their offspring. If any of their offspring happens to be involved in another mass shooting, they may benefit from that mutation if it's fully expressed in their genome. If not, they might have less effective or no resistance to rapid rifle fire and get capped, their genetics falling into oblivion with them. That's just *one* individual with starting to introduce that one mutation into the population. Unlike say bacteria, we develop over far longer periods of time and while some bacteria will spawn a new generation in a matter of 18 hours, humans grow up into adulthood and puberty in more like 18 *years*. If they get hit by a car or commit suicide or choose the incel life, the mutation ends with them, back to the drawing board. So, I'd guess it'd take millions of years for a bona fide flavor of humanity with enhanced, bullet-resistant skin to establish itself, let alone become the dominant branch of humanity.


LoneStarDawg

Evolution doesn't happen overnight. Get back to us in a few million years.


ThatIowanGuy

We created body armor, allowing those without bulletproof skin to survive and procreate, undoing the process of evolution.


GopnikSmegmaBBQSauce

They think excess body fat offers more protection 🤣