The pig sees her, turns, aims, and shoots her almost point blank.

  • FlashMobOfOne
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    1594 days ago

    It should also be noted that the term “rubber bullet” is exceedingly euphemistic.

    So-called ‘rubber bullets’ are huge and have been known to maim and blind people. These aren’t tiny little paintball rounds, folks.

    • @OrganicMustard@lemmy.world
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      674 days ago

      Because most of them have a core of metal or other high density material and a softer exterior. It’s like wrapping a brick in a couple of layers of bubble wrap and hitting someone if the face with it.

      • @Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca
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        434 days ago

        Well, you have to have something heavy to hold enough inertia to have a deterring impact.

        How else are you supposed to suppress the growing second class citizenry? Communicate?

        • Look, nobody’s saying there shouldn’t be special munitions to assault and potentially maim people who have the audacity to tell you the state is doing a bad thing.

          We’re just arguing about the particular construction of this tool for doing that.

      • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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        104 days ago

        Yeah, in a different thread there were some drawings too.

        Until today, I imagined rubber projectile being something that’s just something fast but soft, perhaps something that even disintegrates on impact.

        Kind of like paintball.

    • @lautre@jlai.lu
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      134 days ago

      Yes, they are “less-lethal” but there are still hundreds of cases where people have been killed or permanently disabled because of these.