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"Non-lethal" is copaganda. Rubber bullets can still cause life changing injury like TBI and blindness, and even can still cause death (hexbear.net)

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[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I long ago when I was a cop defending shitlib preferred the term "less lethal" because although they're not likely to kill they certainly still can. I think it's still pretty accurate.

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago

I did a double take after reading the words ”long ago when I was a cop”.

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago

Now I'm a Hexbear cop. I just can't get away from my coppish tendencies. Once a pig always a pig apparently biggus-piggus

[-] GiorgioBoymoder@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

yeah I mean "Less-lethal" is even the technical term the cops use for training and referring to these weapons.

[-] LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

Don't they usually say "less-than-lethal", implying that the ammo isn't lethal?

[-] tocopherol@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

The other way actually, some will say 'less-than-lethal' but they are marketed by producers as 'less lethal' because 'less-than-lethal' would be false advertising, they are recoginzed to be potentially lethal by users and the companies that make them.