Non-lethal weapons

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The new arms race--non-lethal waepons and counter measures.

Hi-tech non lethal weapons

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), August 04, 2001

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The increasing popularity of less lethal weapons is a two-edged sword," says David Jackson, a spokesman for CopWatch, a Web site dedicated to tracking police abuses. "On the one hand, their use causes far fewer deaths than the use of traditional firearms. On the other hand, the perception that they are 'nonlethal' results in their indiscriminate or improper use to a far greater degree than such use of traditional firearms."

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-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), August 04, 2001.


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