• Headofthebored @lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    I just want to say it’s a bit poetic to me that the antique rifle wireless hole-puncher allegedly used has a long history of deleting fascists.

  • Murse@slrpnk.net
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    15 hours ago

    Plot twist: the guy they arrested only tried to kill Kirk, but missed. Turns out some someone else had the same idea at the same time, landed their shot, and spent the next several days confused as hell reading headlines about the shooter turning himself in.

  • Carmakazi@piefed.social
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    18 hours ago

    Even in the best of circumstances, ballistic matching is bunk science used to secure confessions. When the bullet is mangled, nobody is going to take the stand as an expert witness and say “yeah that came from this gun.”

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      18 hours ago

      Yep, everyone that thinks this is some huge deal doesn’t just not understand guns, they don’t have a basic understanding of physics or even basic critical thinking…

      It means absolutely nothing either way, but there’s a lot of shit that does make it look shady.

    • AmidFuror@fedia.io
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      16 hours ago

      The version of this crossposted to news@lemmy.world is a shitshow of ridiculous conspiracy theories.

      I haven’t really kept up with the stories about the Kirk killer, but I remember all the initial evidence suggested he had moved to the left and opposed Kirk’s rightwing stances. Yet many here were convinced that he was a rightwinger himself and that all the statements from the police, roommate, and family couldn’t be trusted. What are the current, rational views about the killer’s motives?

      • TheFogan@programming.dev
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        10 hours ago

        I mean in rational views… the police and DOJ can’t be trusted, the story still has a lot of oddities in it, the text messages seem staged as hell, whether that being Robinson going out of his way to actively clear his roomate, or the police just forging messages.

        That being said I haven’t seen anything that seems to contradict the idea that Robinson himself, was opposed to Kirk’s hate mongering, and took the shot for that reason.

  • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    could not conclusively connect a bullet fragment recovered during Charlie Kirk’s autopsy to the rifle found near the scene

    No confirmed match =/= confirmed to not match.

    They didn’t find a link, not that they proved that a link was immposible. Don’t fall in to the Klandece Owens crazy hole.

    • Krono@lemmy.today
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      They’re saying that, when a bullet is fired from an ancient gun and ricochets off of hard objects, then that bullet will likely be mangled beyond identification. This means that there is not enough evidence to positively connect the bullet to the gun in court. This is normal.

      I think there’s a list of questionable things about Crooks and the FBI allegations. The timeline, the re-assembly of the gun, the sketchy discord messages, etc. This bullet doesn’t make the list.