• MehBlah@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    When watch this kind footage I usually have at least a tinge of sympathy for the victim. Even if its someone bad. Not here though. I feel nothing watching him get shot, nothing.

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      13 days ago

      I saw videos of being getting shot and stabbed and I felt a visceral reaction in my gut.

      For this guy? Nothing. Not only that. I was like ‘come on! You didn’t test your gun beforehand? I rate this assassination 2 out of 5!’

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        13 days ago

        The gun isn’t jamming, sub sonic bullets do not have enough power to kick the shell out so it has to be manual, the person shooting clearly knows this.

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          13 days ago

          With a Nielson device the slide will cycle on a subsonic round. This was a homemade suppressor. The gunman knew how to operate the weapon, but subsonic rounds aren’t inherently single shot.

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          13 days ago

          He could have replaced the recoil spring with a weaker one that doesn’t need as much force.

          Or used a .45 ACP gun. Many .45 ACP rounds are subsonic by default.

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            13 days ago

            It looks like an off-the-shelf commercial handgun. You don’t need anything special to shoot subsonic rounds, though depending on the gun and ammo they can lead to malfunctions like stovepipe.

            I’ve shot .22 CB long out of a semi-auto rifle without issues aside from having to manually cycle the bolt after each shot.

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      13 days ago

      No, no sympathy for him. But for his family, certainly. Just like I have sympathy for all the families missing members because they were denied care.