A disinclination to Tase me would be welcome, mate!
 

Interesting escalation, considering Britain's resistance to arm their police officers with guns regularly.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7745137.stm

It's definitely better than shooting someone.

I don't know if its all Canadian police who have to do it, but my uncle was telling me before he was allowed to carry a taser, he had to let himself be tazed (is that a word?) so he would know what it feels like.

But yeah, I agree with Ophelia, much better then getting shot.

This is bullshit.

In my eyes, such kinds of so called "non-lethal" weapons reduce the threshold of use. - This is especially nasty, when the weapon in question is rather to be categorized as "less-lethal", becaused it already killed ppl.

At this point I can hardly see a case that could be solved by a taser, but not by pepper-spraying/laserblinding/pepper-paintballing the target.

Agreed...and for the common citizens who are all anti-taser, it's as simple as this. Don't act like a fucking fool and you will likely never run into a situation where you're likely to be tasered. If you're dumb enough to agitate a police officer to the point where he feels the use of force is necessary, you probably deserve it, for a multitude of reasons. I have little to no sympathy for even the pettiest branch of the criminal element.

Worried you're going to get tazed?

Obviously haha.

^^^^^ This.

Arm them with .50 cal machine guns and have them point those guns at your head every minute of the day. You've got nothing to worry about, so long as you're not doing anything wrong.

Yes, that's an extreme example, but your logic brings this argument up because it leads to say that you need not fear law enforcement, so long as you never break the law.

As long as it is being used for the proper purpose - self-defense or the defense of innocent people nearby - it is acceptable. The problem is these things become compliance tools rather than the less lethal weapons they are sold as.

It is not a police officer's job to punish someone who gives them a hard time. Being aggravated or annoyed is not a sufficient justification for an officer to draw their service pistol, it should not be a sufficient justification for them to deploy a taser.

Quite right.

My logic actually included the stipulation that ones actions would bring an officer to the POINT OF using force, not simply "doing something wrong" like jay-walking or littering...push a cop that far and I maintain my original point that that person is an idiot...

Cops are NOT going around "pointing" anything at anyone...again: they do that when you fuck up...not fucking up to THAT degree is not a difficult thing to avoid...if it IS that difficult for a person then you deserve it and whatever consequences that brings.

Yes, there has been misuse in the past, but it's exceedingly rare...the average person should be lauding the use of these things. Personally, I enjoy the thought of some arrogant, anti-social fucktard getting hit with 50,00 volts :)

I think they do the same with pepper spray.

I know that it is done using pepper spray in law enforcement, and teargas in the military here in the states.

That is great and all, but experiencing something like that in a controlled environment when you know what is happening to you is a little different than getting popped by it on the street.

Plus there's the whole "excited delerium" nonsense that was being promoted not too long ago...

The use of these weapons requires some serious oversight to prevent abuse.

Police shouldn't need tazers, plastic bullets, bean bag rounds, or any of that. If police to their job correctly, they shouldn't need anything other than their wits and of course a baton.

Police do dangerous jobs, and in the course of their duties may need to use lethal force. They need to be trained well, and held to the highest possible moral and ethical standards.

If we're talking about ideals, then we shouldn't need police at all because everyone would love each other and there wouldn't be any crime.

You're damn right I am. What about political protests like the one outside parliament where they read out the names of all that died in Iraq and it was broken up by police? Now we're going to have police breaking up protests by electrocuting people and they're perfectly within their right. Utter bullshit.

I dunno, I think I'd rather get tazed than have my head split open by a Baton.

I've been tazed, actually. IT doesn't suck that much. A burning sensation on the contact point, but other than that, just a loss of the ability to control your body.

It sucked a lot for Mace Hutchinson.

http://www.ky3.com/home/video/25829234.html

Sounds quite sexy, actually.

I think Canada has had a couple incidents in which people have died from being tased. I know one for sure was on an 80-year-old man in an airport in BC. There was big media coverage for a while.

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