[extropy-chat] fanatic anxietist

[Adrian Tymes]

--- Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:
> I wonder why they didn't deploy the little EMP (or is it microwave)  
> gun that stops modern cars dead.  They could then deal with the  
> threatened suicide without tying up all that traffic and so much
> impact.

Because, much as they have been discussed and are under development,
there aren't any field-ready EMP guns yet.  Not even for the military
(which accepts reliability as low as the Patriot anti-missile system),
and certainly not for law enforcement.