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>> We would need alternative weapons like high powered tasers. These are exceptionally unreliable weapons. There's no real way to bulletproof a cop. Armor pie
by icelancer 6y ago
>> We would need alternative weapons like high powered tasers.
These are exceptionally unreliable weapons.
There's no real way to bulletproof a cop. Armor piercing .223 can go through pretty much any reasonable body armor / shields you would wear into a situation like this and is readily available to fire out of AR-15s and the like.
- runawaybottle 6y agoThanks, I was probing to see where we were at with the tech. Would it ever be possible?
- icelancer 6y agoIt's definitely possible for the value of "can it actually be done regardless of obstructions," super thick steel plating and such will get it done. But the officer will be basically immobile. Kinetic weapons are tough to defeat using countermeasures, perhaps obviously so. I like your line of thinking though. Too many people just complain about the status quo and relying on government action rather than potentially solving it another way. It's just that in this case, physics is a real bitch.
- michaelt 6y agoWeapon technology and armour technology tend to advance in lockstep. The British invent the tank in WW1, the Germans develop a gun powerful enough to penetrate its armour. Tank armour gets thicker, guns get wheels. Tank armour gets thicker and slanted, you get the bazooka. Tanks get slat armour and explosive reactive armour, you get tandem-charge weapons. And so on. I don't think there'll ever come a day when armoured troops can walk into gunfire like a firefighter can enter a burning building.