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'Anti-Violence' gun is pretty damned violent
This "anti-violence" shock gun is a bit of a misnomer. It actually doles out quite a bit of violence, just not enough to kill you. It's got a 30,000-volt electric pulse that can rend even the most imposing attackers completely incapacitated, but that's just the start. It also has a pepper powder cartridge, rubber bullet cartridge and paint bullets. Personally, I'd choose to be shot with the paint bullets if given the option, but that's just me.
I guess I'd feel more comfortable walking around a shady neighborhood with this thing on me, but who has time to switch out the cartridges? What if you were using the paintball cartridge and needed to load up some rubber bullets? I guess you'd just need to be prepared to use whatever you were packing at the time. But hey, it's not violent, OK?
Red Ferret, via Ubergizmo
By aeromidnightrider at 8:04 AM ON 05/12/07
GUNS are not violent! PEOPLE are violent! It takes a person to pull a trigger at some one eles. GUNS save lives. what happens when a policeman tryes to stop a bank robbery with-out a gun, and the robbers have TNT? what do you think would happend.
By DocSciFi at 11:46 AM ON 05/12/07
That old addage "When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns." is absolutely true. Criminals wanting to obtain guns would still find a way. There would surely be an underground for gun sales. The avarage, law-abiding citizen would be at an even bigger disadvantage. And if we outlawed all devices that have been used to kill people, we wouldn't have cars, or kitchen knives, or hammers, or airplanes,------the list goes on and on. The solution to violence lies in the continuing sociopathic evolution of society, which (inherantly) cannot come be easily or instantaneously. Collective societal morality cannot be legislated; it is an evolutionary process which comes gradually.
By rognyt23 at 12:17 PM ON 05/12/07
Violence is ever present in this world, the more options we have to dissuade, deactivate or de-escalate the aggressor the better.
By DavemanXP at 7:14 PM ON 05/12/07
In a shady neighborhood, I'd want three of these weapons - one with the pulse, one with paint-balls and the last... porcupine quills! Oh Yeah! No need to change out cartridges and no need to run. Just hose down the bad dudes.
By Sturmwulf at 9:04 PM ON 05/12/07
Didn't Washington D.C. outlaw handguns? Oh, did we forget to mention they have the highest homicide rate in the U.S.?
By dandandandandan at 10:42 AM ON 05/14/07
Washington DC does NOT have the highest homicide rate in the United States. Baltimore, Detroit, and St. Louis have higher rates (in 2005 - the most recent statistics.)
Further, DC doesn't permit handguns but does permit shotguns and rifles.
AND when we did permit handguns, the murder rate was significantly higher.
Not saying there's a causal relationship, just that it's interestingly correlative.
I should note that if you're in favor of the second amendment applying to citizens of DC, you should also be in favor of applying other aspects of life as an American citizen to DC residents - specifically, the ability to have some control over our own budget (which must be approved by Congress) and our zoning (which must be approved by Congress) and oh, yes, a vote in Congress. DC remains the largest disenfranchised group in the country. It was so egregious that in the 60s a constitutional amendment had to be passed to let us even vote for President!
In a nutshell: Don't bring up DC citizen rights, or use us as an example, unless you're prepared to offer us the same rights you have. Agreed? Good.
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