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Originally Posted by Igottago
I think you're missing the main point....tasing is supposed to be non-lethal. Clearly its not. So to use it as a non-lethal form of dealing with someone is clearly a flawed strategy. It has nothing to do with how many cops died or what this guy was doing before it happened. Everyone knows a cops job is tough.
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I think there's been a mislabeling of tasers and other weapons that police are trying out (pepper canon, bean bag gun etc). There's no such thing as a non-lethal weapon unless its used by Spiderman. Once you aim any kind of weapon and deploy it, your taking the chance that its going to kill the person that your aiming at. I remember when rubber bullets were suppossed to be the great crowd control device. Of course a rubber bullet to the head or the chest, will probably kill you.
What they should do is label these as "we're doing everything that we can not to kill the idiot" weapon.
Maybe they should do a public safety ad around tazers, they can make it like the drug ad with the happy family walking down the beach to soft music, and the voice comes over.
"Tazers can be effective in subdoing out of control people who have drank to much or done the wrong drug or are just plain idiots. But the real effectiveness of tazers is its suppossed to be more about protecting the public then protecting the idiot.
Side effects may include defecation of trousers, convulsions, broken limbs, loss of memory and death.
Do not take a tazer shot, tazer shots can be avoided by calming the hell down, listening to the police officer and not putting your life in jeopardy"