It is now proven almost beyond the shadow of a doubt that Charlie Kirk was not wearing any body armor. The attending sheriff, Erika Kirk, dozens of photographs showing the outline of his pectoral muscles and nipples, and front row witness statements all concur that he was just wearing a t-shirt.
The idea that he was wearing body armor was based on a few frames of Charlie's t-shirt jerking up, and a good faith attempt to make the FBI story make sense. But the most credible proponent of that theory, Paramount Tactical, admitted (before statements from Erika Kirk etc) that there was already a "90% chance Charlie wasn't wearing body armor."
For their part, Turning Point USA's version of the story, and the FBI's, do not mention body armor at all. The official version of the story is that the bullet didn't exit and was trapped under the skin of Charlie's back.
So what are we left with? The officially blamed weapon is a Mauser 98 firing a 30-06 round over less than 200 yards. A typical 30-06 round has a muzzle energy of 2,500-3,000 ft-lbs. That's enough to shoot through solid buckets of ice, cow bones, steel plate, and bear skulls. Conclusion: there is no way that a 30-06 round shot Charlie in the neck and did not exit.
The official story is provably false. So what really happened?
edit: Paramount also threw cold water on the idea of a frangible 30-06 round.
Maybe the guy damaged the bullet when he was engraving the casing? Hit a bee on the way? Reporting inaccurate? Who knows. Weird things happen.
I'm not sure what the actual problem here is. He definitely was shot and killed despite what Gemini was saying a while back.
edit: the bee theory was supposed to be representative of "stranger things have happened", but I guess that's expecting too much here. Regardless, counterintuitively the higher the power the less the bullet penetrates water. Bugs are mostly water. A hollow-point would probably start disintegrating the instant it hit a big one. Million to one odds, but maybee so.
The problem is the FBI says he was shot with a Mauser 98, and he wasn't. Killed with a pistol round, maybe. Not a full-sized rifle cartridge.
The gun is made up, the text messages are made up, and Tyler Robinson was probably entrapped but wasn't even the shooter.
You left out: the camera clearly shows the location that the shooter was at, but for some reason (to my knowledge), no video has been released showing him setting up, taking the shot, or breaking down the rifle before he ran.
And then he presumably reassembled the rifle before ditching it.
None of that makes sense.
It doesn’t make sense because, just like the attempted Trump assassination, it’s all LIES.
Okay so but the sum total of your evidence of that is 'well that's weird'. Weird stuff happens.
No, my evidence is "that's physically impossible." And I know you don't believe in miracles considering your stated beliefs here, not that this was a miracle by anyone's beliefs.
Charlie didn't have a magic neck. Abracadabra with that garbage
Don't know how you can say it's "physically impossible" since it seems to have happened. Improbable, sure, certainly not impossible.
Let me put it this way, what is it that you want the explanation to be? Israeli ninja smuggled a phone-gun in and shot him at close range without anybody noticing anything and also convinced a troony to be up on the roof at the time with a working gun but not fire and then hacked into his phone to send some weird text messages? What explanation would be satisfying.
My guess was the shot was from quite a distance, coulda been faulty/old ammo.
I read a story one time about a guy who was shot over some 2$ dollar store jewelry. Dude bought the last one, went to wait for the bus, this other guy asked him to sell them to him for his girl. He didnt want to. Dude pulled out a little .22 handgun and put it to his head and pulled the trigger.
That close it likely would have penetrated his skull but dude was wearing a ballcap.
Supposedly the metal rim in that ballcap was just enough to deflect the bullet that it hit his skull at an angle and didnt penetrate.
So yeah weird shit happens.
Now go look at a .22 round and compare it to a .30-06 round.
There's "weird" and there's "no, that didn't happen." Something had to be displaced to absorb all the energy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz43uy0K8fY
Higher power rounds penetrate less distance. Normally they penetrate enough to exit, especially a neck, but that just means something abnormal happened this time.
This is an insane statement.
Now maybe you meant larger rounds penetrate "less distance" (higher power rounds tend to be larger) because they displace more mass as they move through an object, and that would be correct, but that's assuming all other variables are consistent.
All other variables are not consistent between a .22 round and a .30-06 round. A .30-06 is larger and has a significantly higher muzzle velocity.
No, they either exit with a large exit wound, or they obliterate the target as a shitload of its mass gets expelled from stopping the bullet. There is no in-between.
Have you ever fired a gun? Or taken a physics course?