What if rape, murder, whatever was legal for 12 hours once a year every year?
What would you do?
I'm watching a movie tonight where any crime is legal once a year for 12 hours except against high ranking government officials and you can't use any weapons above level 4. It's interesting to think about if you would rape, kill, murder anyone, or steal. However everyone else would be armed and able to shoot you or anything unless you hid. No emergency, fire, or police service during the 12 hours.
In our society, I do not think this would work, you kill my relatives or someone I care about, would I wait a year to kill you? Good question. This is a more interesting topic than whatever is on stripper web.
You could rape anyone that wasn't shooting at you. I guess all businesses would close unless the mafia or armed gangs were defending the business.
Security systems that actually do more than sound an alarm would sell well. Guns and ammo and explosives would sell well. NRA dream come true?
Have you seen the movie? Don't give away the ending, I haven't.
I'm watching a movie tonight where any crime is legal once a year for 12 hours except against high ranking government officials and you can't use any weapons above level 4. It's interesting to think about if you would rape, kill, murder anyone, or steal. However everyone else would be armed and able to shoot you or anything unless you hid. No emergency, fire, or police service during the 12 hours.
In our society, I do not think this would work, you kill my relatives or someone I care about, would I wait a year to kill you? Good question. This is a more interesting topic than whatever is on stripper web.
You could rape anyone that wasn't shooting at you. I guess all businesses would close unless the mafia or armed gangs were defending the business.
Security systems that actually do more than sound an alarm would sell well. Guns and ammo and explosives would sell well. NRA dream come true?
Have you seen the movie? Don't give away the ending, I haven't.
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Honestly wouldn't it mostly just turn into looting and serious fires?
Maybe pull out some borderline almost level 4 gun turrets that could mow down a mob. You never know.
Actually a pyscho might use the opportunity without police to blow up the city or whatever else they wanted to. Take out the cities power and maybe water and communication, then attack and pillage. A militia could take over towns. However the other 364 days, the military and police might sue and arrest the militia claiming some law was broken.
Terrorists would have a field day poisoning major water supplies, destroying infrastructure, etc, etc, unless the military was patrolling. Like I said, I don't think it would work.
Man, on a day like that there would be alot of overdo "housecleaning" done.
there might even be some “overdue†housecleaning too
@slick, I believe the movie made note that since they instituted "the purge" that crime, unemployment and poverty had dropped considerably. I guess they thought that along with the "can't hurt certain officials" line would close a lot of holes.
I suppose all banks and anyplace with money would be heavily fortified with armed guards inside. The government might make them all level four or above inside the building so that they could nail your ass if you succeeded in robbing the place. You know the banksters and high ranking officials would want a way out to cover themselves and steal any money right back the other 364 days.
It's an interesting plot but what I saw in the movie was just what could happen in any neighborhood with some not so nice neighbors. It was all centered on one guys house and you heard tv news and saw security cameras outside the house.
It could in fact be a police officer who kills you and takes your loot before The Purge was over, or another gang. I suspect a number of gangs would be roaming around. Would they let everyone out if prison for 12 hours and activate an implanted kill device if they weren't back at the end of the 12 hours? That would really cut own on prison costs. I think it's cheaper to keep everything you have in working order rather than repair all the damaged property after The Purge. Insurance costs would skyrocket if insurance still covered all the massive damage during a purge. A number of people would go 13 or 14 hours or longer after they got a taste of stealing and killing if they liked it. It might be like sex. If they like it, they aren't going to wait a whole year to do it again. Lots of holes in the plot that It would reduce crime the other 364 days.
Nor would I rape. But I hope Kate Upton does not come by to tempt me.
Supposedly the US had new Founding Fathers that reduced crime overall and violence by letting everyone get it all out one day a year for 12 hours. Level 4 and higher weapons are prohibited along with attacking high ranking government officials but everything else is legal for those 12 hours. I thought it sounded crazy but interesting.
2. They're coming out with the purge 2 this summer. Different actors and plot. This one is about a guy whose family was murdered in a previous purge and to get revenge he goes out and protects innocent victims on the night of the purge.