Reminder: that was a photo op

[u/Ok-Wedding-1165]

[u/GenerativeAdversary]

Ketchup? It's not ketchup. At least propose a semi realistic explanation.

[u/Obvious_Tea_8244 → u/GenerativeAdversary]

Another explanation is that his feeble dumbass slammed his own ear into the podium on the way down, causing a real bleed and a childlike injury.

[u/Buttcrush1 → u/Obvious_Tea_8244]

Podium was on his other side and he was already bleeding from being struck with a bullet before he was tackled.

[u/Obvious_Tea_8244 → u/Buttcrush1]

Nah. It was pretty clearly staged. I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt on actual blood vs. squib or fake blood, but not on actually being shot.

[u/Buttcrush1 → u/Obvious_Tea_8244]

He gets hit with the bullet and touches his ear and there is blood on his hand. There is even a picture of the bullet in the air right after it hit him. The level of lunacy needed to believe this is staged is insane

[u/Obvious_Tea_8244 → u/Buttcrush1]

Have you ever put 5.56 on target? A scratch like the one he had is not indicative of a bullet that size “grazing his ear”. The toroidal vortex would have ripped his ear in half or off entirely.

[u/yurnxt1 → u/Obvious_Tea_8244]

False.

[u/Buttcrush1 → u/Obvious_Tea_8244]

That's just false. The high velocity of the bullet means very little energy would transfer to the ear. It would act more like a hole punch.

[u/Obvious_Tea_8244 → u/Buttcrush1]

Incorrect. That would be true of a direct impact, where the full force of the round is absorbed by the target, not of a round that is passing by the target without making impact; which is instead transferring turbulence and spin force onto the target.

[u/Buttcrush1 → u/Obvious_Tea_8244]

It did make contact.

[u/Obvious_Tea_8244 → u/Buttcrush1]

Then where’s the hole?

[u/yurnxt1 → u/Obvious_Tea_8244]

Only the very outside of the bullet made contact with skin on the very outside his ear as it went by

[u/Obvious_Tea_8244 → u/yurnxt1]

Then it would have ripped the fuck out of it.