Re: Non Violent Weapons

Well,
I'll venture a guess at this. A non lethal weapon (forget about
non-violent
weapons, that term doesn't make any sense), needs to incapacitate
soemeon without
causing death or permanent damage.  Paintball sting a bit, sure. but
sufficient
padding and Mr. Yahoo can still come up to you and smash your head in
with a
stick. For me, having been in these situations OFTEN, I want a non
lethal weapon
that will leave Mr. Perp, doing the dying cockroach after I apply it.
Then I can
either:
A. beat a hasty or orderly retreat.
B. Walk up to the guy and apprehend him at my leasure.
C. Turn my back on him and Repeat application of non lethal weapon.

Los

> I always thought that a modern electro-pneumatic paintgun, loaded with
soft
> rubber balls and chrono'd at 350 fps would hurt like hell, but
(barring a
> shot in the eye) do little permanent damage to the average adult. I'm
> wondering why no one has proposed this as an anti-riot solution. Lord
knows
> there have been enough juvenile delinquents who have experimented with
the
> idea....