• oatscoop@midwest.social
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    4 months ago

    The idea of shooting any round at someone and expecting to “just wound them” is absurd, but .223/5.56 is definitely in the range of “reliably fatal if applied to the chest or head” .

    It might not be a “big boy round” but it’s still a rifle round – if wasn’t powerful enough to reliably “incapacitate” (i.e. kill) a human being at 100 yards the world’s militaries wouldn’t still be using after 40+ years.

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      4 months ago

      Real men can shrug off any calibre not designed to punch through car engine blocks.

      Shit, I hear that if you use enough power tools and watch enough sportsball even those liquid copper jet tank boomy things have a hard time getting through the protective crust of sawdust and testosterone.

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        Lol power tools… Literally devices made to make hard work easy, so funny that they became this manly symbol.

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      .22LR can readily kill someone, with good shot placement. Basically anything interfering with the heart, brain, or causing substantial leaks of the circulatory system is gonna kill someone.