• inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world
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    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 there was no link. Don’t fall in to the Klandece Owens crazy hole.

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    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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      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.

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        Not true. CSI taught me that you can make a phone photo and then do an enhance enhance ENHANCE and you will instantly see the shooter’s dna and birth certificate.

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        Despite the legitimacy of your statement I will continue to suggest that this was just one of those ‘1 in a Billion’moments when a carotid artery spontaneously just went pop.

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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.