re: #93 ProGunLiberal

And my Palestinian friends are getting even more tweaked now. They are saying there is no good reason to use DIME weapons in such a densely populated place.

The entire point of a dense inert metal explosive is to limit collateral damage. The kinetic energy of the blast is somewhat absorbed by the tungsten, reducing the radius, brisance, and speed of the shockwave.

Now there are valid criticisms, it’s a new tech and some of the health side effects of nano scale shrapnel penetration aren’t well understood, but it’s wrong to say that there’s no good reason to use a technology explicitly designed to reduce effective blast radius in a dense populated environment.