They make shells for longer birding ranges that are like hybrids between birdshot and buckshot, but at that range you’d need a pretty skilled shooter with a good gun, and then you still have the problems that come with firing a gun. Unfortunately nobody has found a compact, easy-to-replicate mid-range solution. Buuuut if you’re an electronics person with a little knowledge, I’ve seen both internet hobbyists and Ansarallah soldiers with DIY directed jammers the size of a large rifle.

For what it’s worth, I’ve had birdshot bounce off a hard target and hit me in the cheekbone, and it stung but didn’t do much damage

You should release a Netflix stand-up special where the promo image is you doing the Dreamworks Face with caution tape over your mouth

the decision of what’s possible or impossible shoudln’t be done through ideological discourse but through empirical practice

I agree with this. However, It has now been almost two hundred years of empirical practice, and the data is in.

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In short, it’s like trying to solve the problem of an overflowing septic tank by hooking up your house to a second, identical tank: you have not actually solved the central problem, only delayed and worsened it’s consequences.