• canajac@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    It’s just too clean a getaway and too good of a shot for any other explanation considering the angle of the shot, the elevation change, the crowd, and the heightened security.

    Are you looking to start a conspiracy? Marksmen have accuracy. I have accuracy. I can shoot anyone in the neck from 140 yards away and I’m not a marksman, just a guy who has shot rifles.

    • FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Are you looking to start a conspiracy?

      I am. It’s fighting fire with fire. Election denial, vaccine hesitancy, 9/11 truthers, pizzagate, Hillary’s emails, Benghazi. Send it right back at them.

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        2 days ago

        Based. Maybe it was a cartel assassin responding to trumps aggression

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          20 hours ago

          That is the most plausible explanation of a conspiracy seeing as Trump just had a boat with eleven people on it annihilated from existence.

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      2 days ago

      Oh for sure. I’ve shot many rifles, I’m a good shot with iron sights at 200 yards, any modern scope makes it stupid easy.

      The shooter got a body shot, but the bullet hit the steel plate Charlie was wearing and it ricocheted into his neck severing that carotid artery. So goes to show that not even bullet proof vests will stop you from dying.

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        1 day ago

        I really doubt there was any ricochet after watching the video. There is no disturbance at all except strait to the neck.

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            That’s a complete fabrication.

            First of all, I was unable to find a source showing that Charlie was wearing body armor.

            Second, body armor is not made out of steel plate for exactly this reason. Body armor is usually ceramic plates that are designed to dissipate kinetic energy by fragmenting, covering in a plastic or polymer jacket to catch and slow down any fragments, and then it’s usually in a kevlar (or other strong filament) carrier to further catch fragments.

            If a round had hit his chest, and then ricochetted up into his neck, then there would be very obvious evidence of this. His shirt would have a decent entry hole, plus a big debris pattern of lead and jacketing material from where the round hit the steel plate. There would be a much larger and more ragged exit hole, more likely multiple, since bullet would have flattened and fragmented on impact with the steel plate. There would be a lot of smaller wound in his neck from the bullet fragments, instead, we get one clean hole.

            To sum it up, he wasn’t wearing any armor. Even if he was, body armor is made to catch bullets, not deflect them into your neck. And if that did occur, then there would be multiple obvious signs that it did happen that way.

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              20 hours ago

              Have you ever seen a human neck/head shot with a 30-06? It’s would go straight through the neck. This was a ricochet.

              But anyway, time to move on from Charlie and focus back on the Epstein files and the fascist takeover like the GOP does with school shootings.

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                9 hours ago

                Gotcha. 30-06 is so powerful it will completely blow a man’s head off his body, but it will pass through a T-shirt, hit a steel plate under the shirt, and bounce back out the shirt without making a single hole.