A baseball bat is "less lethal" than a knife for the same reason as a rubber bullet vs a lead bullet - less dense, spreads out the kinetic energy more - but how much does that matter if someone hits you with one in the face as hard as they can
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Especially given, as has been mentioned, that rubber bullets are metal cores surrounded by rubber. And any less-lethal weapon will become lethal if used cavalierly, which current American cops will do.
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Even with bad luck or poor training. There's a famous story about a traffic stop in Baghdad in 2003 which traumatised the fuck out of the marine not trained to fire them properly.
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"You'll put your eye out kid"
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I've had some self-defense training, and one of the first lessons is that *any* blow is potentially lethal. So we were told not to defend ourselves unless the situation was one where we were willing to take on the consequences of possibly killing someone.
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Anyone who joins the police has already decided they're willing--or even eager--to kill. And they won't suffer any consequences other than their conscience (assuming they have one) as long as they stick to killing Black and Brown people. They're so vile.
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This is so true. There are NO non-lethal weapons. Just LESS lethal. You can easily kill someone with a cvs receipt if you want to.
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Well yeah, those things are massive! Wouldn't even have to roll one particularly tight!
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Calling rubber bullets "nonlethal" is about as accurate as calling a suppressor a "silencer". The term is "less lethal". The attentive reader will have noticed that the word "lethal" is still active.
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