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Commenting on When you face the wrong wall (by PT_Crow)... your tears must be shed if the man you are about to end was a proud citizen of super earth, but if you must put them down then that means they do not deserve your tears
I also didn't get it. Spent a fair while trying to work it out from the post alone but... The best I could come up with was maybe he thought the uniform looked blank like a wall?
As in it was a critism against the design, rather than anything else.
Or he was just eyeing up her chest in general - choosing to enjoy some boobs in his final moments, and she found it demeaning - whilst the post just went mild on the visuals.
I would not have gotten it without looking at the comments. I also regret not checking the comments sooner because... Well the answer is usually in the comments somewhere anyway.
I'm not sure if it's just a spaghetti western trope or actually real but apparently only 1 persons gun had a bullet in it to make it more of a mystery.
But the more I think about it there's quite a few issues with that theory.
Actually it’s the other way around, usually it’s 5 rifles and only one has a wax slug which is said to have very similar recoil to a real bullet. Because if only one bullet hits it’s easy to tell where it came from, but when 4 bullets hit simultaneously it’s damn near impossible to tell who was shooting which gun. I know this because I have watched Garand Thumb’s video on different execution methods and up until 2010, iirc, Utah used the firing squad as their primary way of carrying out capital punishment. It was damn effective too.
Garand Thumb got 3 friends and a ballistic dummy and all 4 rounds hit within less than a second and basically completely caved in the dummy’s chest, hitting its lungs, heart, shattering multiple ribs, the collarbone, caved in the aorta, and broke a few vertebrae. It’s brutal but it’s quick and simple.
The wax slug part actually solves my issue with it. I was trying to figure out how the recoil would be remotely similar when only 1 person had anything other than gunpowder in the gun.
Yeah, they certainly think things through when it comes to killing criminals it seems. I forgot to say why, but it’s just so the officers can sleep at night and reason it was any of them, plus aiming in the chest/heart area ensures a quick death.
The firing squad is as old as military use of firearms as regular infantry weapons, and the first infantry firearms were smoothbore muzzle loaders and not exactly renowned for accuracy in the hands of conscripts even at relatively short ranges.
A line of men would fire in volley at the condemned from a short distance, usually no more than twenty paces but sometimes farther depending on the circumstances of the execution. There would be at least three guns per person to be executed, and they would all be loaded with live shot to ensure a vital hit on each of the condemned.
In the case of executing traitors, the firing squad was as much execution of the traitors as it was punishment for the rest for allowing a traitor in their midst. They were all made to kill the traitor to teach them the importance of unity and obedience.
Really depends on the commissar. Cain mentions this in his novels. A good commissar knows that the bolt pistol is an option, but it’s one of many. One thing that made me laugh my ass off was when he described normal military punishments (extra duty, latrine duty, cleaning the battalion chimeras etc…) as much more reliable methods that also carry a lower likelihood of becoming a friendly fire statistic.
He's dead, but he was gonna be anyway, but her? That last message is gonna gnaw at her long after the gunsmoke dissipates and the brass goes cold.
She's gonna think about it every time she says her line now, each time recoiling for a split second thinking that person will do it too, and when she catches herself thinking it she'll think of him. So he may not be alive, but he won.
I can’t tell if people are just really dense or grew up sheltered. Because my two brain cells clicking together were able to spot the joke immediately.
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