tasers

With all the threads involving Tasers of late, readers might be interested in a bit of case law that just came down. Without going into a lot of extraneous detail: An individual on a two-day crack and marijuana binge decided to rob a convenience store to fuel his ongoing party. He was...

"What does Santa bring you when you have been good but the world is getting bad?" :biggrin: Maybe I'll get one for Mrs. BPSCG so she can accidentally carry it through airport security along with the pepper spray she's forgotten to take out of her purse.

This morning, it's reported that a UN committee has declared that the Taser device "might" constitute a form of torture. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/25/national/main3537803.shtml We've had a number of threads on the use of this law enforcement tool, often with lurid headlines like...

So I was sifting through some comments on a Youtube video of Andrew Meyer's tazing, and one of his fanbois brought up the following quote: "“Citizens may resist unlawful arrest to the point of taking an arresting officer's life if necessary.” Plummer v. State, 136 Ind. 306."" Skeptical, I...

I had a thread about the threat of lethally modded tetanization beam weapons . Well, here's the org. that's working on the non-lethal ones. How long after they enter service do you wager the U.S. Military will have a company create a lethal version? Really quick I'd bet. Bullets can't top a...

Schools in Florida have restricted the use of tasers, and I am in complete agreement with this decision. The use of tasers on children is completely inappropriate and outrageous. When kids get so out of hand that they need to call the police, the police need to use batons, pepper spray, and...

What in the blue......(insert 4-letter word here)......are these people thinking? They use tasers on kids??

Our department just recalled our old "pepper spray" (oleoresin caspicum) and issued new stuff that's supposed to be compatible with our soon-to-be-issued Taser device. Supposedly, there was some chance that if you sprayed a suspect with pepper-spray, and then taser'ed him, he might burst into...

In today's commentry, Randi says: Why? Surely self-defense devices are quite at home in martial arts stores, as are personal attack alarms and other such items bought by people interested in personal security? Even if a taser has been misused by Yellow Bamboo, it doesn't hold that they're...