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Originally Posted by Dion
If you think tasering is the only way I doubt any other options i might say would change your mind.
Not as cut and dry as you make it out to be. Agree to disagree.
If someone pulls a gun then yeah, taser him.
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Whats not so cut and dry about ignoring a police officers instructions if you have commited a crime? If you speed, guess what you have to stay in your car and provide your info. If you got out and approached the cop, and he told you to stop, what do you think he should do? Wait until you get close enough so that he has no options?
I am not saying that Joe blow walking down the street deserves to be tasered, but if you are commiting a crime no matter how small you should probably listen.
If you really think that a cop has to wait until a guy pulls a gun to use a taser you are way off. A cop should be pulling a gun out if he sees a weapon.
I really want to know the other methods of controlling a situation, I would really like to hear, maybe it would change my opion of them.
Also how many people have actually died from being tasered? I really dont think it happens that often.
Cops have a tough job and they have very little time to determine if a situation they are in could get worse, and I really think that tasering someone is the best method of controlling a situation that could get out of hand. Sure some times things go wrong (until we know more about the vancouver situation I can't say it was right or wrong), but a police officer's or other lives are important too.