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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Wow, so that bullet BARELY clipped him? And he has all those pictures of him trying to act heroic?

Veterans (AKA "suckers and losers" according to Trump) must hate this guy...

[–] SupraMario 30 points 3 months ago (2 children)

No bullet touched him, it's not like in the movies, if a round had even grazed his ear it would have removed a nice chunk of it. Extremely fast objects don't slice you nice and cleanly.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (2 children)

They were saying it was most likely a piece of the teleprompter that nicked his ear.

[–] SupraMario 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yep, why the FBI is wanting to basically look into it.

[–] aidan 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Do you have a source?

you got one that isn't just

republicans say FBI revised that it was a bullet that took out half his ear?

[–] aidan 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Funny how no one has the actual release just those words saying fbi totally said it

[–] aidan 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

no one has the actual release just those words saying fbi totally said it

again waiting for the actual release for it.

cause nothing on their site: https://www.fbi.gov/feeds/national-press-releases/RSS

[–] aidan -1 points 3 months ago

I would guess it was just sent to AP, unless you're claiming its some broad conspiracy??

[–] aidan -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Extremely fast objects don’t slice you nice and cleanly.

What? If is a light graze, yes they would just scrape(or even penetrates thin cartilage)- even if its hollow-point if the target is thin enough.

[–] SupraMario 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Shrapnel creates jagged punctures. JHPs do not work the way you think. They mushroom out to create a larger wound channel. FMJs are much more likely to fragment into pieces upon impact. The FBI apparently is taking trumps word for it, but odds are trump being hit with something one of the bullets hit.

[–] aidan 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Shrapnel creates jagged punctures.

So?? I'm confused what that has anything to do with whether he was grazed, or penetrated lightly.

They mushroom out to create a larger wound channel.

Yes in flesh.

Fragmenting nor expansion are going to happen in something as thin as an ear.

I don't endorse this Youtuber, but its pretty clear that amount of flesh takes basically no energy from the bullet

Trump's ear isn't a steel plate, its a very thin piece of flesh, it doesn't absorb much energy before breaking.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_gelatin#Calibration] I'm no physicist, but if a smaller and much slower BB penetrates over 3.3in through solid flesh, I think the less than half an inch of an ear will not absorb much of the bullets energy.

[–] SupraMario 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think you're missing the point here, the knick he had on his ear was so damn small that it's way more likely it was a piece of something from the podium vs a piece of a bullet. The angle also mean if that was a round or piece of a round his head would have been in the way.

[–] aidan 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think you're missing the point here, the knick he had on his ear was so damn small that it's way more likely it was a piece of something from the podium vs a piece of a bullet.

Why does it being small make that more likely? There is a photo of a bullet going right past his head.

The angle also mean if that was a round or piece of a round his head would have been in the way.

Do you have a source for that?

[–] SupraMario 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Exactly, a picture of one going right past his head, he was damn near at a right angle to the shooter. He didn't turn fully to star at the shooter, so unless he's made of ar500 plates the odds of that being a bullet is basically 0.

[–] aidan 1 points 3 months ago

Well he had just turned, but there are breakdowns where you can see pretty clearly how it happened. But yea, it was very unlikely that he survived- that's what everyone said. Yet it happened.