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Originally Posted by pan6467
Who would decide when and what groups to use these weapons on?
And what of the innocent passersby and the people supposedly being protested against, are they to become victims of our government's zealousness to control the population?
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The police chief, governor, etc. Who do you think would have that decision making ability? the new rookie?
I don't think anyone has advocated using this against peaceful assembly. I think if the situation warrented, there would be very very few "innocent bystandards" around.
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Originally Posted by Mojo_PeiPei
I'm not to big on the idea of testing on American citizens. How do they usually test these types of weapons? I think testing them on the enemies first is a great idea, Abu Gharib, Gitmo, hell maybe even on American prisoners, but not citizens, that is retarded. Maybe give a few toys to foreign governments who have stringent policies against demonstrations, let them test it as a means of crowd control, have American observers there.
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Maybe I'm mistaken, but I don't think the AF secretary was talking of testing the weapons on us citizens. I think he was talking about using them here first. I got the impression it was for setting an example - that the weapons are safe enough to use on our own people, they're safe enough to use on a group of insurgents. I would hope they would be tested prior to being used in a crowd control situation.