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alehul | 5 years ago

We should reduce it as much as we can, but this is a country of >300,000,000 with >6,000,000 crimes occurring each year.

Of the percent I cited, >90% of that lethal force is against an armed individual.

I don't know what sensory approach could prevent every single death, when there are so many cases of violence in this country.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6080222/

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unnouinceput|5 years ago

What are you talking about? Shooting syrings instead of bullets to incapacitate is one low cost that can easily be deployed. Not to mention a plethora of all other non-lethal weaponry that exists. Another is this, though less economical viable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Denial_System.

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