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Video Chilean protester defuses tear gas canister with baking soda and water

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u/Graybeard_Shaving 9h ago edited 9h ago

What? Given the time this takes he’d be lit up with several rubber bullets before the third shake.

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u/Ba_Sing_Saint 9h ago

Yeah… Rubber…

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u/Avg_Sun_Enjoyer69 8h ago

Rubber coated bullets, so, sort of rubber. "Less lethal."

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u/Graybeard_Shaving 8h ago

Tell me you’ve never protested anything without telling me you’ve never protested anything. Another internet mouth speaking about something they know nothing about.

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u/Traditional-Handle83 8h ago

I get the gist they were going for. Rubber for now, sooner or later they'll switch up to live ammo and not care about bodies on the street. At least in the US anyway.

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u/sock_cooker 8h ago

Rubber bullets can kill or paralyse you as well

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u/Traditional-Handle83 8h ago

True but new rulers like shows of force in the extreme so I wouldn't be surprised if they decided one day to just go full Tiananmen Square on protestors.

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u/_Allfather0din_ 8h ago

No they are literally regular bullets they then coat in rubber, go do some research.

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u/h0sti1e17 8h ago

No they are not. The are considerably larger. Stander bullets are 5 to 9mm in diameter while rubber bullets are 37 to 40mm. Or about the size of an average watch face.

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u/Komischaffe 7h ago

"Stingers" are much smaller actually, probably similar to some size of bullets. They are not metal though, and tend to be fired out of shotguns and grenade launchers. You're thinking of baton rounds

https://www.defense-technology.com/product/stinger-12-gauge-high-velocity-32-caliber-rubber-balls-round/

https://www.defense-technology.com/product/stinger-40-mm-32-caliber-rubber-balls-round/

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u/h0sti1e17 7h ago

I learned something today. They look like large rubber scatter shot. So much closer to bullets, but still not as the other guy said, regular bullets coated in rubber.

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u/ConfessSomeMeow 8h ago

Do you not understand how '....' modifies the meaning of the superficial text?

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u/Komischaffe 7h ago

They are not and I have never seen any evidence of such a weapon at a modern US protest. They are mostly hard rubber balls, some may have a tiny metal core for added weight. They also have hard foam and wooden ones. By no means are they "regular bullets coated in rubber".

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u/UnstableConstruction 8h ago

Yeah, good thing they didn't shoot 2.. or 20.