Same reason people have crosses on them. It's a symbol.
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Ton of materials?
It's just a large frame to hold a big knife dropped by letting go of a rope. The hardest thing to get would be the blade, and the whole thing could be constructed in under 2 hours.
Guillotines are too tame for modern audiences. Wood chippers are fresh and exciting.
Ohhh that's great!
If it's about sending a message, then the item itself is the conveyor of the message, not an unrecognizable but more efficient substitute. The guillotine is a recognisable symbol of people rising up and seizing power from the criminal ruling class. It is a warning and a threat.
If you plan on actually executing people, then sure - optimize all you want, or just go with a bullet to the brain.
But as a symbol, the guillotine is powerful.
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I like your approach here of making a clearly wrong statement just to get more activity on this important topic
I will add yet another comment that guillotines are neither complicated nor require much material. you could make a sturdy one with less than a dozen 2x4s, some screws, a scrap piece of rope, and whatever junk metal you have lying around that's around 24x8 (which you need regardless of how fancy the frame itself is)
that said, mobile ones seem like they would also have a purpose
Ugh? Guillotines are very reliable actually. And it's not that expensive, everything is wood except the large blade. Also, you can't fake an execution, the crowd will be satisfied when they see the head
not that expensive, everything is wood
Oh how times have changed
Don't fix what's not broken
Who is joking?
You can make them modular, with telescoping rails, for portability. The blade needs to be weighted, but the weight can consist of a stack of weights, like on gym equipment. In fact, you could probably repurpose a bench press machine into a guillotine with a few minor modifications.
You can also add jets to make it shoot down faster.
It's called a Smith Machine.
Really smooth action.
Do know what a meme is?
Honestly, some people don't. Assuming op isn't trolling, one of my kids is like this.
Same reason we still "hang up" the phone.
Because if we talk about guns and bombs we end up on a list.
if it were up to me, i would use a chainsaw
Are you the type that loves bathing in gore? Because that's what will happen immediately if you start chainsawing people up. They throw everything directly back at the user.
shit, man. fuck
Treat it like a Gallagher show and give the first 3 rows rain ponchos.
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Use a log splitter with a different blade, higher capacity valance and an accumulator for faster action. Strengthen the frame and maybe add a dampener for the end of stroke so things last longer. Reloading ca be controlled by smaller hoses.
Don't log splitters work incredibly slow?
That's not really gonna chop people's heads off, rather it would inexorably pinch their necks until their head falls off.
That's pretty fucking gruesome.
Most wood splinters do move slow but that one (Large valve and accumulator) would make it faster.
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