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The attempted assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk is drawing condemnation across the board for the shooter's inability to hit a giant target.

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[–] TxzK@lemmy.zip 69 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 25 points 11 months ago

I keep trying to find the spot where it doesn’t look fake and I can’t!

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He looks kinda normal at 120%.

[–] VoteNixon2016@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 months ago

That's because 120% is just Adam Driver

You've got to get to like 85% before it starts being unbelievably small

[–] Slab_Bulkhead@lemmy.world 51 points 11 months ago
[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] marighost@piefed.social 7 points 11 months ago

That face is way too big to be Charlie's!

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The last I heard he actually died, though.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 60 points 11 months ago (14 children)

What I heard is:

  • 200 yards
  • 1 round expended
  • 1 dead
  • no collateral damage

Sounds like a pretty competent assassination to me.

[–] ScreamingFirehawk@feddit.uk 19 points 11 months ago

Nice work 47

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Gotta get maga back on his side and forget about Epstein somehow.

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[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 40 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Yeah. I actually watched the video of him being shot and the statements about him being in "critical condition" were clearly just "we don't want to admit he's dead yet." Not a video for the faint of heart. The shot blew open his neck arteries, I've never seen a fountain of chunky salsa like that in a real-life video before. And he instantly went into the "fencing response" pose, which is also a terrible sign in its own right even without the blood fountain. There were medical professionals commenting over on Reddit that if he'd been shot like that while he was lying on an operating table with a team of surgeons standing around him ready to get to work he still wouldn't have made it.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

And he instantly went into the “fencing response” pose

That was what stood out to me the most. Just blood? Someone could poke a finger into that and mitigate the lethality by a ton. But the involuntary response to sudden pain is put your hands on it and guard it... Kirk's hands raised a bit, then kinda just flopped, which has me wondering if that bullet went in through the carotid and then blew his fucking spinal cord in half. Total loss of motor control.

...pretty sure that also means he shat and pissed himself on the way down.

This is the correct way to address Nazis.

[–] krunklom@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 months ago

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

[–] philosloppy@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

the fencing response is the result of brain stem trauma, not pain.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

That's what I'm getting at - the bullet hole causes a lot of pain, and he didn't react to that in a normal way. The way is arms lifted slightly and just kinda stopped screamed neurologic damage. Even if they had stopped the bleeding a millisecond after he was hit, he'd have still been fucked.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Watched it? Shit I fuckin downloaded it.

Edit: agreed with those medical professionals. He would've been dead in less than 2-3 minutes even with the best surgical team in the country. That shit was like Tarantino levels of blood.

[–] hexdream@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'm so out of the loop these days. Where is a source to watch/ download the video uncensored?

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Bluesky. There's a couple of angles.

~~https://bsky.app/profile/ulfh3dnar.bsky.social/post/3lyiwc7aodk2v~~ taken down

https://bsky.app/profile/maverickhammed.bsky.social/post/3lyjdfnwqd222

edit: I believe some of the bsky posts were taken down.

Of course, there are all the angles you could ever want on watchpeopledie

[–] hexdream@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago
[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I saw it on X via a link from Reddit, but when I check that X link now it's been taken down. Bastion of free speech and all.

[–] hexdream@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Ah. I have not been on x since before it transitioned.

[–] ProIsh@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Have an upvote!

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Horseshit. The head is far too easy of a shot. Like Mr. Mackey. This person wanted a challenge.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I do wonder if the neck shot was intentional or a miss. If the guy who did it is named mario I'm going to lose my shit.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

First name, Mario, last name, Brothers.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Luigi Mario Brothers.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Omfg that would just be legendary.

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

200 yards doesn't sound like a lot thanks to movies and such. But it's not trivial. Some practice would have been required. And don't forget the target wasn't motionless. One could also assume the shooter probably was a bit nervous too. So I doubt they really picked the spot unless they were a trained sniper.

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[–] tio_bira@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nah, i think it's the smalllest face on the planet, it gives the wrong impression

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 4 points 11 months ago

He couldn't aim for the face. The face was too small! So he aimed for something else.

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

404: Page Not Found

Sorry, we couldn't find a page at this URL

I can't find this article on the site. It's possible they took it down.

[–] possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 50 points 11 months ago (2 children)

They did, they posted this before he was confirmed dead and updated it with "Antivaxxer finally takes a shot"

[–] cheers_queers@lemmy.zip 12 points 11 months ago
[–] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That looks deleted now too.

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 11 points 11 months ago

Amazing reporting.

I would argue the shooter's aim time was too conservative. He took too long and fouled the shot.

[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 11 months ago

I don't think they were aiming for the largest head on the planet. Graham Linehan was nowhere in the area.

They missed the smallest face on the planet, but that's understandable.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 months ago

A "C" is still passing

[–] ArkanianOffshoot@feddit.org 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Doing the work that needs to be done. Thanks.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago
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