Pentagon Developed 'Laughing Bullets'

plasmadroid writes "It might sound like a joke, but documents unearthed by New Scientist show that the Pentagon actually funded research into 'non-lethal' bullets that would also hit a target with a dose of laughing gas. That way, they'd not only be stunned but incapacitated by fits of giggles. Another idea was to put stink bombs inside rubber bullets. I guess it would work, but the idea of crowds of rioters giggling uncontrollably while being pelted with rubber bullets is truly bizarre..."

Comments

Re:I feel safer already

[grasshoppa]

Non-lethal weapons are hardly a waste of money. Nor are they really intended to protect anybody but the people they're being fired at. That's the point - society has all the "protection" it needs provided by police and military using lead bullets, but are we still so barbaric that we want police to shoot lethal weapons into a group of college kids who had a little too much to drink while celebrating their team's championship victory one night and end up a little too rowdy in the streets? Should the penalty for that be death?

You have grown adults acting as barbaric as the society you claim us to be. These are people who know the difference between right and wrong, yet they choose to destroy property and hurt people. All it takes is one drunk getting the grand idea to start kicking someone, and now you have a mob of drunken idiots beating people for the fun of it. I don't know about you, but I'd rather the cops shoot the mob than they beat me.

Personally, I support napalm in these situations.

Re:freedom?

[rtb61]

Well as long as long as you don't shine the beacon of freedom and democracy over a particular Cuban bay, or on the NSA and it's wire tapping, or on secret no fly lists, or on torturing protesters (shooting, gassing, beating up, or trampling with horses, peaceful democratic citizens), or on one rule for them and another special one for us.

The rumour is the biggest reason they don't want to shut down Gitmo, is because they don't want to release into the general public what they have created, a group of depraved, sexually distorted, homicidally violent, mentally disturbed, sadomasochistic individuals, who take pride and pleasure in the inflection of pain and suffering upon other human beings, and were talking the about the guards, not their innocent victims.