[MelBridgeman]

Originally Posted by Phaneuf3

ok, one more post to come back and stir the pot.

yay hypothetical situations to point out faulty logic:
a man is shot in the stomach. he does not 'drop dead' immediately but instead continues to briefly struggle, hangs on for a while, loses a bunch of blood, slips in and out of consciousness and dies a couple hours later.

he did not drop dead from the gunshot wound and therefore getting shot did not cause his death. you could say instead that he died from blood loss. therefore, guns don't kill people and guns should be considered less than lethal force. fire arms are now acceptable to use on suspects who are not posing a threat but not complying.
QED

Dr. Graeme Dowling of Edmonton's medical examiner's office stated that there are actually "no definitive cases where TASERs have actually killed anybody." Dowling also noted that because the electricity from a TASER device flows across the skin surface, as opposed to through internal organs, there is no effect on the heart. "The frustrating thing for us is these deaths occur and the immediate speculation is TASER," says Dowling.

quoted once again..