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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    17 hours ago

    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.

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        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.