• Hathaway@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    Alright, so, no one here seems to be prior military. Yes, actually, that’s exactly why militaries use them. So, for the practical, it’s really fucking hard to communicate during a firefight and I promise you any sort of assistance is nice. Being able to communicate is a major factor to being an effective force.

    Second, it costs the government a lot of money in disability. A lot. Pretty sure tinnitus is the most common issue paid out.

    Source: former infantryman.

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      3 days ago

      I don’t want to give people in firefights assistance. If you’re willing to use a gun in a firefight, you deserve hearing damage.

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        If you’re in the vicinity, you’re in the firefight whether you have a gun or not. You want the shooters to have suppressors.

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            I also want no shooters, and yet there are shooters. Given that there are shooters, if you don’t want them to have suppressors, then you do want them to cause hearing damage to bystanders.