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6/5/2013 7:20:44 PM
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Why are certain weapons banned by the Geneva Convention?
I just found out that using a .50 cal machine gun against people is technically banned by the Geneva Convention, as the .50 is supposed to be used against Vehicles and Materiel only. Why is this? If you are a soldier shooting at another soldier, the objective is to kill them. Wouldn't you use the most potent weapons systems to accomplish this?
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It's more of a production limitation. It would be easy to give every soldier heavy armaments, and just shove tons of bullets into the breathing space of the enemy, but to eliminate the Inhumane slaughter that would follow, not forgetting that these weapons lead to massive injuries fairly often much like landlines. It's not to say "don't shoot this gun at people," but rather "shoot these smaller guns at people so that if they don't die when you hit them, they can at least keep their arms and legs."
