tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post116977655328111986..comments2023-12-17T19:35:07.459-08:00Comments on Bouphonia: Portable GodsPhilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15849261651028725772noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-1169905588020160432007-01-27T05:46:00.000-08:002007-01-27T05:46:00.000-08:00Jonathan, I'll add to Gindy's comment.I was in the...Jonathan, I'll add to Gindy's comment.<BR/><BR/>I was in the position at one time of trying to sell nonlethal technologies (not this one) to the military. What I said above is exactly the way they put their objections.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://whirledview.typepad.com" REL="nofollow">CKR</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-1169829192046198392007-01-26T08:33:00.000-08:002007-01-26T08:33:00.000-08:00I beg to differ with you, jonathan, but my Marine ...I beg to differ with you, jonathan, but my Marine Corps husband is a military guy and he was trained to kill people. He was trained to do this both on the ground (infantry) and in the air (bombs from planes). He has never done it and cannot now as he is retired, but he was trained that way.<BR/>GindyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-1169828902475209042007-01-26T08:28:00.000-08:002007-01-26T08:28:00.000-08:00im not sure i agree, the army is trained to kill y...im not sure i agree, the army is trained to kill yes but also to hit targets. if the gun fires rubber bullets or real ones the enemy is likely to fall down and stay down for a while.<BR/><BR/>so the military are not trained to kill per cay, but to use weapons that kill and as long as non lethal weapons mock real ones there is little problem<BR/><BR/>Non lethal weapons work fine on crowds such as sleeping gas or tear gas, pepper spray or a fire hose have all be proven efficient methods of crowd control.<BR/><BR/>the new weapon sounds great but it must have some side effects, your screwing with your insides<BR/><BR/>personally i prefer <A HREF="http://www.advancedsecurityscreening.co.uk/" REL="nofollow">crime prevention</A> and prefer guarding my assets with <A HREF="http://www.advancedsecurityscreening.co.uk/security-cages.php" REL="nofollow">security cages</A> (or locking people in them)<BR/><BR/>anyway i think it probably needs more testing to be secure, for now prevention is the keyJonathan Siberryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02518175574423697811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-1169822572210026642007-01-26T06:42:00.000-08:002007-01-26T06:42:00.000-08:00The military microwaver, you see, has always been ...<EM>The military microwaver, you see, has always been coming but never quite arriving, perhaps one reason being because no sensible officer wants to see his career go down in flames over it when it's unleashed on a defenseless crowd and creates an atrocity that's captured on TV camera.</EM><BR/><BR/>You've hit on the basic problem with nonlethal weapons.<BR/><BR/>The military is taught to kill the enemy. Nonlethal weapons don't kill.<BR/><BR/>So they're said to be suited to applications like crowd control. But they have to pack enough of a wallop that some people will be vulnerable to them. Since you can't choose your crowd, some of those vulnerable people are likely to be present, and they're likely to be civilians. So you may wind up killing or maiming them.<BR/><BR/>Or maybe someone dials up the power on the microwaver too high. Mistakes can be made.<BR/><BR/>Nonlethal weapons aren't deadly enough for serious fighting but they're too deadly for crowd control.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://whirledview.typepad.com" REL="nofollow">CKR</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-1169816149618080682007-01-26T04:55:00.000-08:002007-01-26T04:55:00.000-08:00For all the cash they spent on this thing, and I a...For all the cash they spent on this thing, and I am sure it was a lot, it doesn't seem very effective.<BR/>You can jump out of the way of it, unlike a bullet. You can move away from the pain, unlike a Taser. <BR/>And how BIG would one of these have to be to really control a raging mob. Especially one with some sort of projectile weapons (stones, not bullets)?<BR/>GindyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com