• tyrant@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    I’m worried about the next Rittenhouse. Stay safe out there and watch out for the “good guy with a gun”

    • reiterationstation@lemm.ee
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      3 hours ago

      I’m sick of worrying about being killed over my freedom of speech in this so called free country and I think I’d rather die by calling out some fascist than cancer or living under tyranny anyways.

      None of you are immortal so figure it the fuck out.

    • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      I love when someone brings up Rittenhouse because I dated someone who went to high school with him, so I know quite a bit about him.

      Turns out all of the signs were there and his mom encouraged that type of stuff :)

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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        They’re often are signs. I was at school with someone that ended up being a murderer. He was a super weird kid, his father wasn’t around and his mother was an alcoholic so he never really had a great upbringing, schools response to all this was to get him suspended whenever he acted up.

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            2 hours ago

            Short answer : No

            Long answer : Bullet proof is a misnomer, everything, even the air, will eventually stop a bullet. You can get a suit with ballistic fiber which will work against small and slow calibers. Keep in mind that the damage a bullet does is more than just perforating your clothing. Body armor has a rating system telling you what kind of rounds it can mitigate, although most rifle rounds require some sort of rigid plate to prevent penetration and also dissipate the impact over a large surface area. A thin, flexible bullet resistant suit or jacket is not going to do either of those things very well.

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            2 hours ago

            You mean the ones that completely negate impact damage? I think those would violate physics.

            You are supposed to be able to get flexible bulletproof armor that isn’t made of Kevlar but some kind of non-Newtonian gel, but I don’t know how good it is.