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Ted Cruz

7 (6.5%)

Rick Santorum

16 (14.8%)

Michelle Bachmann

13 (12%)

Chris Christie

23 (21.3%)

Rand Paul

49 (45.4%)

Total Members Voted: 107

[Frumple]

I wonder if we'll see something like this present the next time a major activist movement sweeps the country?

That sounds irresponsibly dangerous. Pepper spray is bad enough, but then there's lasers designed to be shone into people's eyes to blind them, and the thing can be loaded with solid plastic pellets too? It's just asking for someone to get killed or maimed.

... you seem to be under the odd impression that the folks buying these things give a damn if someone's killed or maimed. Maybe if many are, at one time, but a few here and there? Hell dude, that gets wrote off in places like the states, nevermind mines and whatnot in third world countries. Probably seen as more of a feature than a flaw

[XXSockXX]

I wonder if we'll see something like this present the next time a major activist movement sweeps the country?

That sounds irresponsibly dangerous. Pepper spray is bad enough, but then there's lasers designed to be shone into people's eyes to blind them, and the thing can be loaded with solid plastic pellets too? It's just asking for someone to get killed or maimed.

I wonder when we'll see drone counter measures on the market.

They already are widely available:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Sergarr]

I wonder if we'll see something like this present the next time a major activist movement sweeps the country?

That sounds irresponsibly dangerous. Pepper spray is bad enough, but then there's lasers designed to be shone into people's eyes to blind them, and the thing can be loaded with solid plastic pellets too? It's just asking for someone to get killed or maimed.

I wonder when we'll see drone counter measures on the market.

They already are widely available:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Will you be labeled a terrorist for using them on drones?

[XXSockXX]

Will you be labeled a terrorist for using them on drones?

Since you're damaging government property, probably yes.

[LordSlowpoke]

all i want to see now is people in florida buying out some important plaza and staging a protest there then shooting all the drones in the face and claiming stand your ground laws

[RedKing]

That's when they unleash the manhacks.

[Culise]

Will you be labeled a terrorist for using them on drones?

Since you're damaging government property, probably yes.

Ah, but these particular drones are corporate property right now.  So you'll probably be hit with vandalism, incitement, use of a deadly weapon...oh, and loitering, that old stand-by.  And then you'll lose your job.

[Sergarr]

Will you be labeled a terrorist for using them on drones?

Since you're damaging government property, probably yes.

Ah, but these particular drones are corporate property right now.  So you'll probably be hit with vandalism, incitement, use of a deadly weapon...oh, and loitering, that old stand-by.  And then you'll lose your job.

Where are the worker unions when you need them? Ah, that's right, they've been subjugated by corporations.
Because "communist hurr bad durr".
Stupid capitalism.

[XXSockXX]

Will you be labeled a terrorist for using them on drones?

Since you're damaging government property, probably yes.

Ah, but these particular drones are corporate property right now.  So you'll probably be hit with vandalism, incitement, use of a deadly weapon...oh, and loitering, that old stand-by.  And then you'll lose your job.

Not if I quit first, ha! Oh, wait...

[Lord Shonus]

The projectile weapons on the drone linked are nothing more than paintball guns, as pepper ammunition for those has been on the market for years, and the guns themselves are cheap. Meaning that a flock of these is less likely to cause serious injury than a single taser. The energy weapons are far more probable to cause serious long term effects, but using that capability in either riot control or protest breakup would be worse than useless. Without a strong visual signature, they cannot provide a wide-scale intimidation effect that the pepper guns provide, meaning that the only result would be a great deal of anger subsequent to the event, making whatever percieved threat they were used against far, far worse, much in the same way that Kent State proved a rallying point and call to action for the anti-Vietnam peace movement.
 

In technical terms, it isn't very impressive. Duplicating it (or producing a lethal variant) could be done in a week or so by a hobbyist using off-the-shelf parts. Even for the region, it's trivial compared to the knockoff fighter jets, missiles, and nuclear bombs produced domestically in South Africa during the apartheid era.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

This Is What Rafael Cruz Actually Believes

[Mephansteras]

This Is What Rafael Cruz Actually Believes

Can't watch youtube at work. Could you summarize for me, please?

[Bauglir]

This Is What Rafael Cruz Actually Believes

Can't watch youtube at work. Could you summarize for me, please?

"If you don't vote Republican, you're a bad Christian."

[FearfulJesuit]

If there's one thing the Religious Right needs, it's a visit by the Inquisition and other heresy-snoopers.

[Bauglir]

If there's one thing the Religious Right needs, it's a visit by the Inquisition and other heresy-snoopers.

What better way to ensure ideological purity?