Although they wouldn’t kill someone, they could produce an effect that could stun or disable someone temporarily. In Coleman’s TED Talk, he said that non-lethal weapons were “explicitly introduced to be an alternative to firearms” (00:10:32-00:10:36). This essentially means that even though it isn’t a firearm, it has the same psychological effect in the way that people are afraid to have it used on them and therefore, will comply with the law. Now that police forces have sidearms they can use more often, people became more fearful and didn’t participate in deplorable acts - and thus, the rate of crime decreased. This proves that non-lethal weapons air on the side of moral decorum. Such weapons cannot y be moral hazards if they help rid of criminal activity and help provide safety for
Although they wouldn’t kill someone, they could produce an effect that could stun or disable someone temporarily. In Coleman’s TED Talk, he said that non-lethal weapons were “explicitly introduced to be an alternative to firearms” (00:10:32-00:10:36). This essentially means that even though it isn’t a firearm, it has the same psychological effect in the way that people are afraid to have it used on them and therefore, will comply with the law. Now that police forces have sidearms they can use more often, people became more fearful and didn’t participate in deplorable acts - and thus, the rate of crime decreased. This proves that non-lethal weapons air on the side of moral decorum. Such weapons cannot y be moral hazards if they help rid of criminal activity and help provide safety for