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:freedom?

[catbutt]

Wow you are right, we could save all kinds of money if we just eliminated police, the court system and the prison system. It's a free country anyway....if I want to rob the 7-11 at gunpoint, who is the government to try to control me otherwise?

(and especially this kind of research, which I'm sure is using up a massive chunk of our budget)

Re:freedom?

[ncc74656]

How about the freest and most democratic country on Earth spending money on ways to temporarily disable its enemies as an alternative to killing them?

The Bad Guys and their fellow travelers will still find something to bitch about. All those hajjis locked up at Club Gitmo? We would've been within our rights to just kill them all where we found them...the Geneva Conventions allow for the summary execution of unlawful combatants. Instead, we decided to try to play nice and let them live. A handful have even been cut loose, upon which they've spun lies about their treatment. Said lies then get their fellow travelers seething. How's that for gratitude? :-P