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Originally Posted by flameswin
But that's exactly my point. Cops are using them in both scenarios, and in my case, I would likely be a good candidate to die if I was jolted by one of those things. Firefly mentioned that if you have a medical condition you should know better and not be belligerant, but in the case of heart problems, most of us don't know about it until something happens ie: heart attack, dying from taser shock.
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Originally Posted by flameswin
I don't know how to make this any more clear. That's simply not my point. I agree completely that if someone is endarenging a police officer or the public, and the only options the cop had left was to either tase or shoot, then choosing to tase is the right choice, and if the person dies, well it was his own fault. My point is the people who didn't need to be tased, where the cop just thinks it's a good "control" method. The best example is the "don't tase me brp" guy, was he a threat to kill anyone? No, so what if he dies like many others have? That's my point.
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I'm certain you exaggerate the extent to which cops are using them on the belligerant and non abusive characters. At the same time, How many times should the cops have to ask a person to calm down or physically try to take them down before they're allowed to tase? I watched the "don't tase me bro" video and it's not like the first thing they did was bust out the taser.
I apologize, I should clarify... when I said belligerant, I meant belligerant and abusive. Cause a person can yell profanities at a cop all they want which is belligerant, but throw in resisting arrest which
can put the arresting officer and the person they're arresting in danger, and that's what I meant.