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Originally Posted by moot1337
A taser is a weapon that has the capacity to kill its target, especially when misused.
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1. No one said or suggested, in any way, that it was misused. If you're the one suggesting misuse, i'd like to know why you think that, and what you're offering to back up your guesswork.
2. "Capacity to kill" is a bullshit throw-away term. Lots of things can kill a person. I can kill a person with two fingers. If they sprayed her with mace, the chemicals could have thrown her respiratory system into arrest. You don't know that. Not to mention the fact that they might not carry mace, if they carry tasers.
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It's made to be effective in most all cases, which means that it's overkill for a good pecentage of them.
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I'd like to see the numbers to support that rather lofty claim.
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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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It's even easier to misunderstand the situation when you weren't there, and definitely don't have all the facts. I don't think, from what I read, there was any kind of "being carried away" here.
And If this "grandma with a hammer" managed to throw the hammer or a knife and seriously wound an officer after having been maced, were mace an option, I don't believe your tone would be the same.