Surely the police and military (any difference anymore?) need non-lethal means for subduing rioters.

But even in the category of non-lethal means, some are meaner than others. Which is worse: tear gas or feeling your skin is boiling? Do

you want your local police department to add a virtual flailer to their arsenal, next to the machine guns, tanks and helicopters? mjh

ABQjournal: N.M. Home to Nonlethal Weapon Work By Andrew Webb, Of the Journal

“There’s a lot of nonlethal research out

there,” Garcia said.

The Active Denial device has been scaled down to fit atop a military Humvee, and is expected to see early

field testing next year, said Garcia, who was one of its first test subjects in Albuquerque.

“It’s

incredibly painful,” he says. “I thought I could mentally override it, but it’s as if you’ve touched a hot iron.”