"It will be a lot safer for the officer and for the person being shot," said Jim Greer, the CEO who joined the company in 2008. "What our products are going to do is stop and defuse threats." [More]I thought the threat of being killed did that.
Safer for the person being shot. Good grief.
If this isn't the greatest technological innovation since the 571B Banana Slicer, I don't know what is.
For LEO use only--any bets their unions will nip this in the bud? Any surprises if someone gets the bright idea to mandate it for the rest of us?
Years ago the Detroit police department tried something similiar, but with a hard jacket. I remember working on this guy who had been shot in the head three times with these rounds-after he robbed a Burger King.
ReplyDeleteThe guy got ahold of a gun in the trauma center and shot the place up- Think it would have been wiser if they had put him down in the first place.
Might have a limited use as in flight carry ammo on aircraft... but if I ever need to stop someone from killing me, it will be with something actually designed to do as much damage as possible, delivered intentionally where it will stop the attack soonest. I have no intention in the world of merely annoying the aggressor.
ReplyDeleteAnd if they don't want to get hurt... all they have to do is leave me alone. That really doesn't seem too difficult to understand...