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It's not unreasonable to imagine non-lethal weapons being used with far less discretion than guns. Kids running around tasing people for fun, for example.
by brandonmenc 12y ago
It's not unreasonable to imagine non-lethal weapons being used with far less discretion than guns. Kids running around tasing people for fun, for example.
- crpatino 12y agoWith due respect, if your kids think that it's OK to shoot a gun to someone because it is "non lethal" (btw. sublethal would be more accurate), then you are raising a generation of drooling idiots. Which is, by the way, not what direct observation of evidence suggest. After all, baseball bats have been and continue to be much more easily available than tasers, and still you do not see hordes of drooling-idiot teenagers hitting people for fun on the streets. What you see is a small minority of very troubled kids attacking people for more or less rational (or at least, purposeful) reasons with whatever weapons happen to be available to them, more or less regardless of lethality of said weapon. And you are not going to solve that problem by making sub-lethal weapons unavailable to a completely different demography. What you do is to identify those kids and rehabilitate them before they become hardened criminals.