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Excellent! Non-lethal weapons are always a welcome addition to any police forces' arsenal to deal with a situation where lethal force isn't neccessary -- saw a special on either TLC or Discovery about it, actually ...
Paintball guns, bean-bag and expanding-net firing shotguns, tear-gas, tasers ... sure, there are some instances where police need to actually kill someone, but a lot of times a suspect is killed because the police don't have a non-lethal alternative to use. Sadly, as I understand it, only our larger police forces are able to diversify to the non-lethal tactics (due to costs) ... (and, I of course could be very wrong about that)
I also think it's way cool that a lot of the non-lethal alternatives were used for the occupation of Kosovo by American Marines (not sure about other countries, or, for that matter, other U.S. services, so I won't speak to that point) in cases where they needed to subdue locals but didn't want to use lethal force to do so ...
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In certain hostage situations, a police shooter (ie. sniper) is the only way. With a 30m range, the stun gun should be fine for most street incidents where a handgun would normally be used, though.
-------------------- "Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!"
The Battle of the Pelennor Fields.
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