Comment on Why the video of Charlie Kirk being shot was kept on social media platforms
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 22 hours agoWhich is odd you know? I thought “meh I’ve seen some sick shit” but nope. One minute he’s a racist accelerationist bigot and the next moment he still is but his brain is clearly whack and blood is rushing down his neck.
Movies and videogames don’t come remotely close to representing it accurately
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
I’ve even see other videos of people getting killed before, and they were not this bad. Not often; I’m not someone who generally seeks that stuff out. Maybe it’s because of the bright lighting, high clarity, and comparatively high resolution of this one, combined with a gunshot wound that had very gory and visible results.
flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I think what gets people about this one is the large amount of blood that comes from severing a major artery like that and it funneling out there such a focused point.
antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
Kirk’s killer seems to have used some large calibre weapon which probably made it look so particularly brutal and bloody.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
It was a .30-06, a 7.62mm round, similar to an AK-47 (ARs uses5.56mm). They make big exit wounds.
Given how close the round hit to his brain and the fact that it hit a major artery, he likely died due to the hydrostatic shock from the impact.
He likely didn’t even know he was hit, he was seizing immediately and all of his body motion after the impact was involuntary.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
For me it’s mostly how the body reacts to the bullet, the hands going up a little Ina reflex, but you can see he’s already lost control of his body. That part is always what gets me
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Yeah that was unexpected and really fucked me up mentally.