The pig sees her, turns, aims, and shoots her almost point blank.

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    Because most of them have a core of metal or other high density material and a softer exterior. It’s like wrapping a brick in a couple of layers of bubble wrap and hitting someone if the face with it.

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      No, more like wrapping metal in rubber, as you had described. No need to downplay it.

      It’s like getting the end of one of these lobbed at you:

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      Well, you have to have something heavy to hold enough inertia to have a deterring impact.

      How else are you supposed to suppress the growing second class citizenry? Communicate?

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        Look, nobody’s saying there shouldn’t be special munitions to assault and potentially maim people who have the audacity to tell you the state is doing a bad thing.

        We’re just arguing about the particular construction of this tool for doing that.

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      Yeah, in a different thread there were some drawings too.

      Until today, I imagined rubber projectile being something that’s just something fast but soft, perhaps something that even disintegrates on impact.

      Kind of like paintball.