• aidan@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    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.

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      3 months ago

      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.

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        3 months ago

        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?

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          3 months ago

          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.

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            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.