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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
hmmm I don't know that it means gun replacement to me. I think it means another tool that has it's place and we're finding that it is being used in place of a club/nightstick to poke and prod.
So this person was acting like a cow, not moving when asked, so he got treated like one.
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Interesting. My perception is obviously the opposite. I tried to check out Taser International's site to see what they say (
www.taser.com, but our filter won't let me in (interesting considering that this could be a potential account for me). So I looked at
Wikipedia and noticed the third paragraph. There is an entire genre of less-than-lethal weapons, and the Taser is simply the most visible. There are bean-bag projectiles, rubber bullets, willravel's microwave gun, etc. that are all designed to be used INSTEAD of firearms. The nightstick has it's own issues I'll grant, but I don't see how the taser is designed to replace it when the latter leaves the recipient incapacitated.
Poke and prod? Cattle? There are better tools for that than a taser.