to prevent abuse or misuse by terrorists?

http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/?q=node/...

Would appreciate more takers on this one -- we've had almost 20,000 reads on our story about San Diego's sheriff deploying sonic weapons at town hall forums, and only a few dozen people have taken the poll so far. (We definitely got the Sheriff's attention, after this story got picked up nationally in the mainstream media. They held a press conference to demonstration the non-weaponized features of the LRAD (long range acoustic device) and now state they have "disabled" the ear-splitting feature used to repel insurgents in Iraq and pirates on the high seas.