Guys, guys, guys! It’s a shitpost collage I edited myself and posted in the according community. Seems like I need a big disclaimer.
Comment on The bullet engravings as per WSJ
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours agoYeah at this point … this is probably not a good idea.
Further: That’s a casing from a pistol round, probably 9mm, not a necked casing from a hunting rifle.
Apparently, the entire ‘trans ideology on the casings’ thing … came from our favorite divorced domestic abuser Steven Crowder, who claims that basically just someone in the ATF just sent either their own opinion or a prelim. analysis to him.
Then, as best I can tell… the WSJ just ran with that, and then everyone else did.
So… hooray journalism I guess, basically everything is a wildly irresponsible gossip rag right now.
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
I am not gonna tell you what to and to not post.
That would be unimaginably ironic.
I am gonna say that I really hope your online profile cannot be easily tied back to your actual identity… by either random people with a vendetta… and/or possibly any information within the purview of being obtained by some kind of warrant from the US government, or maybe being leaked from some kind of right wing person that works for an ISP.
Things are looking awfully dicey right now.
The entire problem with a bunch of very, very angry and distraught people, is that they tend to believe whatever the fuck they want to, to justify and amplify their anger.
After all, in a highly emotional state, one’s feelings do not really rationally consider or evaluate any kind of facts.
And, I guess you could say that I am deadly serious about that.
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
Thank you for going so far thinking about my safety. That’s rare. Thank you for that.
I am from another problematic state, so I’m probably safe posting that. But being there on Lemmy I feel a kind of a second-hand involvement with what haunts americans whose news are frequent there. And talking about that, making shitposts, I feel relieve as I say what I want to actually say about my own state, but would be ruined if I did.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
Hah, yeah, no problem on looking out for your safety.
And yeah, I did the American thing of assuming whoever I am talking to is also American by default, unless otherwise indicated…
But yeah, it sounds like you understand my genuine safety concern as an overriding default, at this point in time.
Rakonat@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Was going to say, weren’t they claiming the round was from a 30.06? It should be necked and considerably longer.
This is turning into a worse frame up job than Luigi. Does the DoJ just tell local authorities to find a scapegoat if the shooter can’t be found in 12-24 hours?
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
I have been over in another thread trying to figure this out.
What was originally claimed was ‘an older 30.06 Mauser’, but that seems unlikely, primarily because almost no Mausers, K98k’s, are chambered in 30.06, they’re almost all in 7.92x57mm, which is not a 30.06, that’d be 7.62x63mm in metric.
Also… yeah, it does seem like an actual 30.06, at that range of approximately 150 to 200 yards/meters… would have made a lot bigger of a hole, entry and exit wound… more like just a good chunk of his whole neck blasted off/apart, than the hole that we saw.
Uh, finally… this is the image from the New York Post going around that apparently is the weapon.
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This is not an older Mauser.
It is probably a Remington 700, or Ruger American, probably from roughly the 90s or 00’s, probably in .270 or .243 or something like that.
Basically, this looks like a roughly 20 to 30 yo, extremely common, bolt action deer hunting rifle in the US.
Let me try to figure out how to link to my own comment in another thread.
lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/21325405
It is looking to me like uh, what a surprise, initial reports are sloppy, vague and innacurate, great job Kash Patel on not having an actual suspect within 24 hrs, I guess tweeting that you’ve apprehended the suspect (who was actually the wrong guy) wws more important.
Oh god this is all so very, very stupid.