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A Boring Dystopia

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

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 162 points 3 days ago (3 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.

[–] OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 69 points 3 days ago (3 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.

[–] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 45 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago

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:

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 3 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 13 points 3 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.

[–] kcuf2@lemmynsfw.com 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, but i can put on safety gear and accept getting shot with them as a part of a fun game. Unlike metal cored rounds.