Non lethal weapons for crime control make a lot of sense to save lives. Although if you shoot the bad guy well one could say he or she is no longer a problem to society and you have indeed saved money in the long run? Of course that is not a politically correct thing to say these days and we do attempt to publicly hold ourselves out to be a civil society and caring civilization.

So then, non-lethal weapons are a good option to combat crime or even to patrol our borders with to prevent illegal entry to our nation. For instance zapping someone with a ray-gun, which is disguised as a cactus tree kind of makes sense too doesn