destructdisc@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · edit-221 days agoThe Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation.video.twimg.comvideomessage-square29linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up11arrow-down1videoThe Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation.video.twimg.comdestructdisc@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · edit-221 days agomessage-square29linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareFlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·21 days agoIt 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.
minus-squareOrganicMustard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·21 days agoBecause 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.
minus-squarePhil_in_here@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·21 days agoWell, 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?
minus-squareu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·21 days agoYeah, 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.
minus-squareLumisal@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·21 days agoNo, more like wrapping metal in rubber, as you had described. No need to downplay it. It’s like getting the end of one of these lobbed at you:
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.
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.
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?
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.
No, more like wrapping metal in rubber, as you had described. No need to downplay it.
It’s like getting the end of one of these lobbed at you:
Paintballs can blind you