• constate368@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    What percentage of the children do you think were ‘accidentally’ shot by snipers?

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      8 months ago

      I think few to no children were shot, but many were injured via indirect means, as I think I pretty clearly lay out.

      At the very minimum, it would be a rare occurrence for so many children to only be wounded if shot by a sniper rifle. It is unlikely, in general, that the wounds were from sniper rounds.

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        8 months ago

        The majority of the injured were children and two are in critical condition as a result of sniper fire targeting the hospital, a Red Crescent statement said.

        So they got injured running from sniper fire? Did the sniper pull off some James Bond shit and shoot a dangling object to fall on them?

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          8 months ago

          Idk if you know this but sniper rifles are pretty powerful and fuck things up.

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                8 months ago

                They fuck up what you’re aiming at. In this case, mostly children.

                Sorry if that was unclear.

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                  8 months ago

                  Except that’s literally not how the damage profile of such a round functions. Limbs disappear - soldiers die. Children would be slaughtered. This clearly did not happen.