Supporters believe that the bullets can stop criminals before they reach for their guns.
He uses his powers to stop criminals in his native Canada.
"We are stopping very serious criminals in their tracks just by cracking down on fare evasion," he said.
But passing more gun laws is not going to stop such crime or criminals.
"They are supposed to stop criminals, not anybody who's black."
"I'm a copper to stop criminals," Timberlake says of his intractable methods.
But proponents say that such detention is needed to stop dangerous criminals from committing more crimes.
I like your thinking - much in the same way that there are laws to stop criminals profiting from writing books about their crimes - yes!
Not all of these strategies are going to stop criminals from doing what they do best.
They are intended to stop criminals before they can break a window and enter a home.