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17 people were killed in Northern Ireland during the Troubles by "rubber bullets" so they are quite capable of killing people:

https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/issues/violence/rubberplasticbulle...

>>arethu+(OP)
3 of those people are listed there as killed by rubber bullets, the other 14 as being killed by plastic ones.

>>arethu+(OP)
Also, more than a thousand people were killed by Tasers in North America alone. This is an outdated (2017) list with names. https://truthnottasers.blogspot.com/ Non-lethal my ass, I'd say.

>>square+E6
They're usually sold as 'less lethal'

>>arethu+(OP)
scores of people in Hong Kong have lost eyes to rubber bullets- a few American protesters have as well in the last few days

>>arethu+(OP)
What do you think the appropriate civil order methodology alternative for attacking police officer's should be?

>>easyti+5e
Your statement is implying that the overuse of force is only in retaliation to attacking cops - have you not seen the dozens of videos over the last few days of people being shot at or gassed for protesting peacefully? Or being rammed into with cars?

>>boogie+t6
A distinction without a difference.

>>splitr+4C
According to Wikipedia's separate article for plastic bullets, they were developed to be less lethal than rubber (no citations for it though). IMHO, this could teach a useful lesson, that even the ones intended to harm less can be made harmful to the point of deadliness. I think it depends on the (ab)user, even dihydrogen monoxide is deadly when abused.

Just wanted to "[point] out some consideration that hadn't previously been mentioned" and "[give a tiny bit] more information about the topic" (https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.) :/