• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    Jesus Christ people! … wear safety glasses … that shot hit the top of his head, a couple inches lower and it would have hit his eye … and all this was just random. The shooter just off handedly pointed the gun at the pastor and the pastor was just moving around … if both shot and person had lined up perfectly by chance, the pastor would have lost an eye.

    If one of those non-lethal rounds hits you square in the eye … there’s a high chance you’ll lose that eye. It also looks a ‘pepper round’, a small ball that breaks, explodes and releases irritant pepper. If that ball hits your eye, it damages your eye and now you have irritant pepper stuff in there.

    Don’t just look for regular safety glasses - you need high impact resistant safety glasses (if you get just any old regular safety glasses, they won’t protect your eyes) … get ones with the following rating

    Z87+ ANSI Certified for High Impact (noted the ‘+’ sign … it needs to be there for ‘high impact’ rating)

    This kind of glasses is meant for working around woodworking, steel or machinery equipment where you could have high velocity objects flying around … here’s a quick demo of what means …

    https://youtu.be/LjvCkQEIf9Y

    This is all insane because I work in construction, building, shops, woodworking and machinery shops all my life. I’m no pro but I do know that every time you step into these places, owners and managers provide the most basic safety equipment because they don’t want to be sued if anything happens … and so many dangerous things can happen when you have high speed things spinning around that can throw metal, glass, wood or heavy plastic around like a shot gun blast.

    Yet, government and officials are willing to expose the general public to these same dangers without so much as a warning or explanation to people to let them know what could happen to them. Fuck this world is devolving fast.

      • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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        7 days ago

        And if you do decide to take them to a protest or event where you might be in danger but law enforcement might take them away from you or use it as a sign to target you … get the tinted kind (something stylish) so that you can just pass them off as sunglasses.

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      7 days ago

      Any brands that are reputable?

      Or inversely, are there brands that advertise that rating but aren’t actually legitimate?

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        Any hardware or tool store will have some. The only place you’d have to worry about getting fakes from are online stores. But even then I’d imagine it’s pretty rare given how cheap the real ones are.