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by ilugaslifg 3412 days ago
Selection bias. The cartels using trebuchets aren't getting caught.
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Like looking at planes that return from battle and placing extra armor in the places where there AREN'T bullet holes :D
More likely the well capitalized one's with sound business plans aren't. About twenty years ago, I heard someone describe the difference in the drug trade then and in the 1970's as the difference between some hippies with a boat and the green shipping container every Tuesday.

Forty-seven pounds is not even hippies with a boat. They moved tonnes in fifty pound bails.

Interesting theory there.
The trebuchet being a infinitely superior war machine is NOT fake news