r/JewsOfConscience • u/MichaelSchirtzer • Nov 15 '24

Humor Police shot me with rubber bullets

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u/holiestMaria Nov 15 '24

So the cop did... what you are actually supposed to do with rubber bullets?

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u/anticomet Nov 15 '24

Oh, look, a boot sommelier

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u/holiestMaria Nov 15 '24

What no? This is a condemnation of cops. Who use rubber bullets like normal bullets instead of trying to ricochet them. Thats how these bullets are meant to be used.

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u/heypresto2k Non-Jewish Ally Nov 15 '24

Whoa! I didn’t know that. Not from a gun nutter country. What’s this about?

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u/bearoscuro Non-Jewish Ally Nov 15 '24

From what I understand, rubber bullets can be lethal or cause severe injury if fired directly - people have lost eyes and stuff like that when hit and there are a few cases of deaths. The "intended" use is to fire them off the ground so they bounce up and don't hit as hard, but in practice cops will just go and aim for the head or chest regardless.

Also it sounds like this cop resorted to firing it less dangerously only after he was prevented from his god-given blue line right to aim for the head lmao... maybe people need like an umbrella + safety goggles + armoured codpiece type of situation 😔

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u/heypresto2k Non-Jewish Ally Nov 15 '24

Thanks for the explanation! Always heard people being hit by them in the face and chest so thought that’s how they’re normally used. This makes sense.