Yes, they are “less-lethal” but there are still hundreds of cases where people have been killed or permanently disabled because of these.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
lautre@jlai.lu 1 day ago
kcuf2@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
Paintballs can blind you
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
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.
OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 1 day 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 1 day 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?
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
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 1 day 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:
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user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day 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.