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> permanent injury across a crowd This needs a real world citation. Wiki seems to me missing it too. "This article is missing information about non-loudspeak
by aaron695 6y ago
> permanent injury across a crowd
This needs a real world citation.
Wiki seems to me missing it too.
"This article is missing information about non-loudspeaker / anti-personnel uses and hearing damage. (June 2019)"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Range_Acoustic_Device https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Range_Acoustic_Device
Then, if there are any actual facts not political facts, we can talk about refusing police access to non-lethal weapons and only giving access to guns and what that might mean.
- ashtonkem 6y agoThe police already have guns, lots of them. The problem with less lethal crowd control tools is that police use them in situations where they would never use a real firearm, creating injuries that wouldn’t happen otherwise. This is really problematic when the police are angry at the protestors, as it gives them a way to inflict revenge pain without the PR fallout of opening fire with rifles. There is evidence that even on a regular basis, tasers have not replaced firearms, but instead have replaced other means of de-escalation and constraint. The result is that more americans might be dead because we’ve handed out tasers to cops without a second thought.