Tazer has three 'civilian' models they are now advertising to the public. They're not cheap!
The police unions already are in a tizzy and the devices themselves are already illegal in a number of states.
http://www.officer.com/article/artic...&siteSection=1
I found it interesting that the law enforcement version shoots the barbs 21 feet and the civilian model does 15 feet. I guess I'll have to keep that in mind if a challenge a cop to a tazer duel.
The hand-wringing is somewhat amusing since obtaining a tazer is a brady-bill worshiper's wet dream. You have to submit yourself to a background check, including submitting your social security number and if you deploy the tazer, little discs with an ID number assigned to you get shot all over the place so the police can track you down if you leave the scene.
I'm interested in your opinions on this. Would you carry a tazer? I'm not sure I would ever deploy a weapon unless I was in fear of my life and then I'm not bringing a zapper to a lethal-force encounter.
Oh, they do have a guarantee that if you zap someone and leave the tazer behind so that you can run away, they'll replace the tazer for free
