Charlie Kirk died after being shot at a Utah university last week, with doctors calling it miraculous the bullet remained in his body, his friend said.

Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet on Saturday said Charlie Kirk’s surgeon called it an “absolute miracle” that the bullet that killed him didn’t exit his body because dozens of people were standing behind him when he was shot.

“I want to address some of the discussion about the lack of an exit wound with Charlie. I’m usually not interested in delving into most of this kind of online chatter, and I apologize this is somewhat graphic, but in this case, the fact that there wasn’t an exit wound is probably another miracle, and I want people to know,” Kolvet, the executive producer of “The Charlie Kirk Show,” wrote in a lengthy post on X.

  • NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    24 hours ago

    Would make sense, not going to watch that video again to double check.

    Its been bad enough that I’ve had to spend the past five or so years navigating the internet between ethnic cleansings (there are multiple currently happening, West Papua is being bombed as we speak), war crimes and police killings.

    I’m sure it’s doing wonderful things to the brains of the people actively watching

    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      17 hours ago

      Not only that btw, but the armor needed to stop a 30-06 is NIJ level IV rated, like these. Thick bois. Not only could it have taken out a moose at 5x the distance, at that distance it would have blown through level III plates, much less soft armor that’d be concealable. And none of that helps when the round hits your unarmored neck lol.

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        16 hours ago

        I have also seen videos of guntubers actually testing the same caliber and range, against a level 4 plate, and they aim the shot at the top edge of the plate, such that it could maybe kind of plausibly do the internet theorized ‘it bounced off his plate into his neck’ test.

        Yeah, the top chunk of the plate breaks off.

        Not even level 4 plate is guaranteed to totally stop a 30.06 at such a close range.

        And we… would have seen a chunk of plate blowing off in the up close, higher res videos.