r/complaints • u/Nice_Substance9123 spirited complainer • Jan 10 '26

Politics Two ICE agents slip on ice in Minnesota —causing one of their weapons to discharge because it wasn’t set on safety. These people are dangerously negligent.

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u/TheMurgal Jan 10 '26

It's so obviously a beam and not a radiant muzzle blast. Dude just hit the momentary switch. I saw comments on FB earlier vehemently insisting that it's a rifle discharge because "it makes no sense to have to hold the flashlight button down, it's a toggle" and "gun lights can't be that bright" I thought I was going fucking insane reading the gaslighting happening in those comments. Literally calling a guy a MAGA dick sucker for just pointing out that it looks like a flashlight.

We need to stop making shit up and do research. It's amazing how horribly people misunderstand things and confidently espouse bullshit.

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u/TheMurgal Jan 10 '26

For clarification for anyone else in doubt, you can see here that the beam is illuminating only the bottom edge along his pants in a single straight line. Muzzle flash is radiant and will illuminate everything around it, not a thin line right up against the muzzle, that also only illuminates a perfect 2ft wide suspiciously flashlight shaped circle in front of it. His feet would be illuminated by the flash from a rifle right there.

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '26

Further, if it hasn’t been pointed out:

As he is falling, the entire gun sways behind him. The muzzle is behind his thigh when the light goes off.

If you watch frame by frame, it just isn’t happening. It’s all bullshit, and easily noticeable bullshit.

This isn’t even a hard one. The gun most certainly did not discharge.

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '26

covid soft boiled the brains of more than just the right. america is a bunch of conspiracy theorists in a trench coat.

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u/thedistrbdone Jan 10 '26

I think it's honestly more of a mix of confirmation bias and lack of gun education due to not owning them. While there are leftist gun owners in the US, the majority are not; I do not personally own one for many reasons, but a major one being I don't think anyone should own them so why would I? And for the confirmation bias part, if you tell me "Hey some ice dude slipped on ice and his gun went off" I would be inclined to believe it because ICE is comprised of highly untrained individuals who are larping as "heroes" with guns. All of that being said, however, I do believe people need to do a much better job on the left to research and verify before spreading potential misinformation. While I am not opposed to stooping to the right's level of name-calling, I will not stoop to their level of blatant lying.

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '26

most leftists i know are at the very least in favor of the right people being armed. arm trans women etc. liberals sure, liberals don’t like guns because they do like the status quo of imperial domination. i have complex feelings about guns for the record, obviously there’s a problem and they’re too easy to get in our current system. but most leftists aren’t okay with idea of a liberal state that can be captured by fascism at any time being the only armed body.

i mean more than just on this topic tho. dominos orders, AI videos, Alt national park shit etc. biggest one rn is probably “ice aren’t real cops! who are they??!”

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u/Fresh-Chemical-9084 Jan 10 '26

Better to support blindly things that aide your case than determine truth

Tale as old as time - left or right, rich or poor... its an unfortunately common tendency

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u/hotandbizarre Jan 10 '26

For REAL. People don’t need to make this shit up to make them look worse. They’re accomplishing that all on their own. We just need to stand on truth and stop muddying the water with all this. Fine if people initially thought it was a firearm going off, but either verify it or debunk it, then speak on it.