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When lawless mobs impulsively loot, commit arson, and kill the innocent, police can often restore order only with lethal force. But when cops run out of ammunition, what happens to social order at that point? The current situation in South Africa provides a real-world example. 6:53 video describing South Africa's outcome of permitting ANTIFA type rioting.

Sure, mechanical sentries and AirSoft turrets are novel, but there's nothing like whipping out an electromagnetic pistol to show folks you mean business. The Gauss GP-219 looks like it came straight from level 5 of Duke Nukem 3D, and rocks a PIC microcontroller, dual coils with "precision pulsing" to fire steel projectiles, twin infrared sensors to assist in positioning, and even a laser sight to keep your enemies pegged. Powered by an NiCd battery pack, this bad boy also features a bar display to track "capacitor bank charge progress," battery and fault LED indicators, and is "completely silent" when fired....

6:34pm (UK) Blair Felt 'Very Sorry' for Jailed Airgun Teacher By Joanne Clements, PA The Prime Minister tonight said he felt “very sorry” for a teacher who was jailed for grabbing an airgun to confront “yobs” outside her home. Tony Blair said he had read about the case of Linda Walker, who is serving a six-month jail sentence in Styal Prison, Cheshire, and felt sorry for her. Walker, 48, fired an air-pistol at the pavement during a stand-off with a gang of youths outside her home in Urmston, Manchester, last August. At her trial she said her family and home...