I had never even considered the possibility of something like this. I wonder what effective interventions we might be missing simply due to lack of creativity.

I had never even considered the possibility of something like this. I wonder what effective interventions we might be missing simply due to lack of creativity. I imagine a version of these wide enough for a person’s waist and with a locking mechanism could be used for knife/fistfights and be much more humane than shooting. Perhaps they could be stored in squad cars the way shotguns are.