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8-12-2009 3:15 PM
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8-12-2009 3:16 PM
BartendingBear
Representatives of the government torture innocent citizens into
unconsciousness, on camera, in United States courtrooms with tasers.
They use them on prisoners and on motorists and on political protesters and bicycle riders, on mentally ill and handicapped people and on children And it's happening with nary a peep of protest.

America's torture problem is much bigger than Gitmo or the CIA
or the waterboarding of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The government is
torturing people every day and killing some of them. Then videos of the
torture wind up on Youtube where sadists laugh and jeer at the victims.
It's the sign of profound cultural illness.
8-12-2009 7:32 PM
willhelm
I have to say that I tend to side on the side of tasers. However, I think there are some problematic issues. 1. Guns work better. 2. It gives the police an easy way to abuse people and I think there are just enough evil, idiot cops for this to be a concern. 3. The next step, tazers for crowd control, is surely an interesting option for the fascist progressives. I suspect they might like to use them on "mobs".
8-12-2009 11:53 PM
darkeforce
Tasers are very seldomly lethal; we've been given a false sense of the lethality because for every 1 fatality that the media reports about, there are 1000 cases where there is no permanent harm done. Tasers only have a minute fraction of the lethality of guns; and that makes them a much safer alternative.

It's how they're being used that's the problem; not the tasers themselves. If they used them as intended by the makers — as a substitute for firearms only — then people would see what a boon they are. It's lazy law enforcement agencies allowing their use in cases where just batons or muscles are warranted that makes them seem so bad. It's when law enforcement substitutes a taser for other ...
8-13-2009 1:19 PM
clip-on-tie
lol BOO HOOOO


STUPID LOL
8-13-2009 1:20 PM
clip-on-tie
POPPED!!!

LOL
8-13-2009 1:42 PM
kkcapricorn
Having worked in an ER, I have seen the effects of tasers, mace, and bullets. The all can be lethal. I think a police officer should follow the same procedures for using tasers and mace as they do for firing their guns.
This might make them think. Probably not, but at least while they are busy with the mounds of required paperwork, they can't be on the streets hurting people.
8-13-2009 2:05 PM
BartendingBear
Some cop is just waiting out there for one of your friends or family, clip. I'm sure you'll be laughing your ass off.
8-13-2009 3:24 PM
tazmanium
You know what clip, your an A%#(*&#
8-13-2009 3:57 PM
ratilfar
Nothing good comes from giving police officers portable torture devices.
8-13-2009 8:30 PM
darkeforce
Their intended use is not as a torture device. With the human imagination, nearly anything can become a torture device, so it's disingenuous to call Tasers a torture device. They are a stopping device, and used properly, they do not torture.

Don't blame the tool; blame the idiots that are misusing it.
8-13-2009 8:40 PM
willhelm
I like to blame the tool. Especially when the tool is an idiot.
8-14-2009 6:24 AM
darkeforce
Spoken like a true tool.
8-14-2009 6:25 AM
darkeforce
Say, Willhelm the Chickenhearted; isn't it about time for your monthly check from your Messiah, Rush Limbaugh, paying you for spreading blatant lies, propaganda and misinformation?
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