destructdisc@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · edit-221 days agoThe Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation.video.twimg.comvideomessage-square29linkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up16arrow-down1videoThe Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation.video.twimg.comdestructdisc@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · edit-221 days agomessage-square29linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareOrganicMustard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·21 days agoBecause 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.
minus-squareLumisal@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·21 days agoNo, 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:
minus-squareu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·21 days agoYeah, 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.
minus-squarePhil_in_here@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·21 days agoWell, 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?
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.
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:
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.
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?