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Feel free to recreate and calibrate and guarantee safe shock levels to offer it cheaper if that fits your morals
by Aachen 2mo ago
Feel free to recreate and calibrate and guarantee safe shock levels to offer it cheaper if that fits your morals
- rootusrootus 2mo agoWhy is there a requirement to guarantee it safe? I don't believe that requirement exists for tasers, for example, which are just considered less lethal. Same for rubber bullets.
- nine_k 2mo agoIf you're selling it as a nonlethal weapon, you should somehow make certain it's not going to kill except by freak accident, and cannot be used to kill deliberately. Also, consider the safely of the police officer.
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- jst1fthsdys 2mo agoI have bad news about what is considered non lethal. They sell non lethal tank rounds, for instance.
- casefields 2mo agoThese systems are called less than lethal.
- SauciestGNU 2mo agoJust "less lethal" is the current industry term, since it's acknowledged that these weapons are still capable of killing.
- kstrauser 2mo agoSafe shock levels is a naive myth. What if the person had a pacemaker? What if they’re wet? What if one person is grabbed by the bicep and forearm, and another is grabbed by the chest and face? It’s completely impossible to assign one value, or even range, that’s both safe and effective for all commonplace variations.
- ishouldstayaway 2mo agoThat is exactly the point you are responding to. There is no such thing as "safe shock levels". This is just Taser(tm) all over again.
- Aachen 2mo agoKid's toys beg to differ. The question is whether it's effective at safe electricity levels. I was just pointing out that safety is an aspect you'll need to certify before anyone's gonna buy it off of you. And whether you fake your certification or not, of course there's no guarantee that it can't still inflict damage to a person under any circumstance
- skeledrew 2mo agoAll covered in the article. Touching face, chest, groin, etc is forbidden. And the shock is local to the touched area (unlike tasers).
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- ceejayoz 2mo ago> Touching face, chest, groin, etc is forbidden. Sure, just like beating a suspect is.
- skeledrew 2mo agoYep and the point is moot in that sense. There are those who will use the gloves as prescribed, same they wouldn't stoop to beating up a person of interest, etc. And there are those who will go directly for the sensitive areas out of spite, whether it be with glove, baton, gun butt or fist.