Idealistic
From MIT, a bit on making bullets safer or less lethal. Because criminals will make sure to use those types or rounds, being so concerned about collateral damage and all.
And the first commentator nails it. It’d probably be labeled as explosive by ATF.
January 20th, 2014 at 8:21 pm
Add in the niggling little detail that bullets are just small chunks of lead, easily made at home with minimal tools and a bucket of discarded wheel weights, and well those $4.25-a-pop bb’s become even less interesting to those who were less interested in them to begin with.
It is ignorant too, to believe that less-lethal is actually beneficial. It’s beneficial to the criminals & muggers, but not to the population at large.
The fear of death is a rather big deterrent. If you could wave a magic set of unicorn nards around and make every bullet disappear & replace them with Pain-O-Matics and, at the same time prevent any new, non-unicorn-nard powered bullets from ever being created ever again, criminals can now rest assured that the worst thing that could happen to them when trying to assault granny for her medications is a painful welt.
And violence is not satiated in the least.
January 20th, 2014 at 9:27 pm
http://youtu.be/GircMluiO94?t=17s
January 20th, 2014 at 10:34 pm
Dammit Pop…it had taken me 20 years to forget Jocelyn. Now I have to start all over.
January 21st, 2014 at 2:33 am
And while we’re at it… Resist we much…
January 21st, 2014 at 3:27 am
Oh god the laughter in the background as she was talking pushed me over the edge.
January 22nd, 2014 at 5:09 pm
ANYTHING ballistically launched that has at least as good a chance of stopping an attacker as FMJ (which is probably the worst bullet choice for defensive handgun use) is plenty powerful enough to do suicide really easily (one of the kid’s claims is that his “less lethal, but greater stopping power” bullets would reduce suicide because they were “less lethal”). Jon Eric Hexum did himself quite nicely with a BLANK. Any tranquilizer that can reliably put a person hyped up on adrenaline down in one shot fast enough to do any good is likely to be lethal to at least 50% of the population (more like 75%. . . ) and multiple shots can always run even an LD50 dose right up to LD99.
Geez. I thought MIT was an ENGINEERING school. . .