“Innocents not be harmed...” Yeah, slippery slope.
Brain Storm: How about cops use smart bullets that guide on bad guys. Or just ‘wing them’.
(I want to throw in a Will Rogers comment about a headline: ‘Innocent New Yorkers shot on the street’ and he says ‘That’s the best shooting ever done in this town. Hard to find four innocent people in New York.’)
Now how to designate a bad guy? Implant a chip? Image recognition of someone holding a gun? Facial image comparison with NSA data base?
Or home on images of 4-legged fur-covered objects with wagging tails.
In reality a 7.62 has so much linear and rotational inertia it would be hard to get a control surface big enough to deflect its ballistic path very much. Note how the .50 cal has about 4 times the original bullet size for the new tail.
I also like the possibility that if a bad guyl/gal is shooting at me I may be a better shot than him/her.