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

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[–] 164 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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.

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  • [–] 70 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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?

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  • 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.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year 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.

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