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If true, why had his taser license not been revoked?
by mikelward 11y ago
If true, why had his taser license not been revoked?
- tptacek 11y agoIs there a such thing as a taser license? I don't think people should be allowed to arbitrarily carry tasers around, either, by the way. Certainly I don't think it's OK for bar bounces to have them. Dozens of people die every year when the police tase them. Tasers are not safe.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoGonna need a citation? Tasers certainly sound safer: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3800082 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3800082
- tptacek 11y agoYour argument here appears to be that I am misguided because tasers are safer than firearms. I am not in favor of guns either.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoAh, sorry, I meant for morbidity claim.
- tptacek 11y agoI don't have good statistics, but late last year I went through the Guardian's police shooting database and bucketed all the killings in a spreadsheet, and I was startled to see how many people were killed by tasers. Tasers are dangerous.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoI see that Taser combined with drugs or alcohol can increase risk of heart arrhythmia. That seems to be responsible for most of the deaths. Police Officers would encounter those folks more often than the general population.