moot1337

What the fuck happened to good, ole fashioned MACE? Huh? That seems a FAR less likely to be lethal alternative to a taser or gun, especially for those who aren't going to have much resistance to it, like a 56 year old in a wheelchair. While I agree that the authorities have every right to defend themselves and others from attacks like this, what they did in this case was an example of not thinking through the situation, and using the fix-all alternative on someone who would have been much more easily subdued.

A taser is a weapon that has the capacity to kill its target, especially when misused. It's made to be effective in most all cases, which means that it's overkill for a good pecentage of them. Police do still carry pepper spray, right? It's easy to misunderstand the pressure involved in a situation, but how hard is it to think something like, 200lb assailant with weapons=taser, grandma with a hammer/knife=spray? Seems we can get carried away when new technology is presented to us.

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