The point is that this title is bait. ICE has been pointing (and shooting) at peoples’ faces all year with rubber bullets, tear gas, and other crowd control weapons. This title makes it sound as if they’re waving live rounds around in this picture.
If that distinction doesn’t matter to you, then you are free to happily go about your day without giving it a second thought.
Right, but ICE has been doing this for a while. It’s bad, but it’s not new. As far as I’m aware, ICE hasn’t brandished or used live rounds in close quarters (as in this picture) yet.
I think the distinction is important because if ICE starts using live rounds on protesters, people are going to start retaliating with live rounds. Then we’re in full-on mask-off civil war territory, no more pretending. Blurring that distinction is playing with fire, IMO.
Please read the image description:
It’s not a real gun with live ammunition as the post title subtly implies.
“Non-lethal” weapons to the face are still not good, but police and ICE have been doing this for a while. It’s not new.
The gun shoots stuff that can kill, especially at that range. Shut up.
I’m well aware of that.
The point is that this title is bait. ICE has been pointing (and shooting) at peoples’ faces all year with rubber bullets, tear gas, and other crowd control weapons. This title makes it sound as if they’re waving live rounds around in this picture.
If that distinction doesn’t matter to you, then you are free to happily go about your day without giving it a second thought.
That’s a stupid distinction because either will kill at that distance aimed where they are.
Right, but ICE has been doing this for a while. It’s bad, but it’s not new. As far as I’m aware, ICE hasn’t brandished or used live rounds in close quarters (as in this picture) yet.
I think the distinction is important because if ICE starts using live rounds on protesters, people are going to start retaliating with live rounds. Then we’re in full-on mask-off civil war territory, no more pretending. Blurring that distinction is playing with fire, IMO.
Dude police shoot people all the time.
They treat a gun shaped item as a gun, with live ammunition all the time.
“As far as you are aware” is worth nothing.
I’ll remember that when my life flashes before my eyes when somebody shoves this in my face.
Those weapons are not non-lethal, less lethal.
Same thing.
Lmao go get shot in the eye with a bean bag and get back to me about that
Oh wait no you won’t
I meant that they are referred to by the same phrases, fucking christ.
They shouldn’t be. Less than lethal is also a dog shit phrase when people do actually die from them.
💯 Agree
non means non
less means less
and that concludes our intensive three week training