What You Don’t Know About Tasers Could Hurt You - Are Tasers Killing Anyone? - Are Tasers Being Misused By Law Enforecement?

The Trouble With Tasers - What The Manufacturer Doesn’t Want You To Know.

To the more than 10,000 law enforcement agencies who use them, Taser-style stun guns probably seem like a godsend — a quick jolt of electricity and even the brawniest and most berserk criminal can be brought to the ground. No guns, no deaths and no permanent damage….

However, a CrunchGear investigation paints a different picture. Not only have at least 167 people died after being Tasered, according to The Arizona Republic (although the number of these deaths that can be directly attributed to the weapons is disputed), but there appears to be an aggressive effort by the company to silence critics and to control data and, on occasion, manipulate statistics with the intent of preserving an illusion of safety surrounding its products. ……………..

…………………………………………Even Taser’s harshest critics acknowledge that being shocked is highly preferable to a gunshot. The problem seems to be that in its proactive presentation of the products as nearly-harmless — through a combination of suing critics (effectively silencing potential critics), controlling relevant research, and offering Taser shocks to anybody who passes by its booths at conventions — the public perception of Tasers becomes one of a device that is entirely non-lethal, making their misuse inevitable. Just ask Mustafa Tabatabainejad. — READ THE FULL ARTICLE

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I think even more important than the belief of the “harmlessness” of the taser, we need to be even more concerned about the “misuse” of this weapon by law enforcement. When law enforcement is under a misconception that these weapons are safe to use, they are going to use them much more often, and I don’t mean against people that they would have ordinarily used a gun on. This will (and in some cases, has already become), the “easy” way to subdue someone, it’s a slippery slope.

Here are just of few cases of misuse:

Taser Used On Woman Having A Diabetic Seizure.

College Student Tasered Repeatedly - this article also includes a YouTube video of the attack.

Police Use A Taser To Subdue A 9 Year Old HANDCUFFED Girl.

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Tasers may be safer than guns, but new evidence suggests that they’re far from harmless.