Rubber bullets have 3% lethality [1] compared to a 20% lethality rate of normal bullets [2]. Anyone who says “less than lethal” or “non-lethal” is lying to you. A stab wound is 5% but a knife legally counts as deadly force when used by a civilian. Tear gas also frequently results in hospitalization in military recruits [3]
Rubber bullets have 3% lethality [1] compared to a 20% lethality rate of normal bullets [2]. Anyone who says “less than lethal” or “non-lethal” is lying to you. A stab wound is 5% but a knife legally counts as deadly force when used by a civilian. Tear gas also frequently results in hospitalization in military recruits [3]
https://www.wired.com/story/what-tear-gas-does-to-the-human-body/ ↩︎
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/13785657/ ↩︎
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25003867/ ↩︎