• this_1_is_mine@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Not to be nit picky but point blank is “within lethal range”. If it can kill you it is within point blank range. You could be half a mile away and still be within point blank range.

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        9 months ago

        Who’s defending what now. I just want people to use the correct wording. Stop using words you think you know. Keep it simpler. I’m so tired of reading trigger words just because they help the Luddites.

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          9 months ago

          Point blank by civilian definition is barrel close enough to the skin for the flash to burn it. By military definition it’s about 25 meters. You’re the one fucking with semantics to defend war crimes.

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      9 months ago

      “Not to be nit picky” proceeds to nit pick and be wrong about the subject you’re nit picking…

      • Merrium Webster: a: marked by no appreciable drop below initial horizontal line of flight; b: so close to a target that a missile fired will travel in a straight line to the mark

      • Cambridge: aimed or fired directly at from a close position

      • Dictionary.com: aimed or fired straight at the mark especially from close range; direct.

      Imagine a journalist using a dictionary.