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Edit: I didn't realize that it takes about 40 minutes for a tranquilizer to take effect, if they hit the target in the right spot. I apologize for my stupidity

• CydeWeys 9y ago
  Because you're gonna get killed if you use them against someone who has a gun? No force was called for here. Had force been called for, i.e. if the story about a murder and an armed hostage situation were true, running in with just tranquilizers would have been insufficient and would have led to dead cops.
• ryanwaggoner 9y ago
  Because life isn’t a movie and there aren’t tranquilizers that work reliably fast enough to avoid the other party shooting back?
  • pavel_lishin 9y ago
    Not to mention that the wrong dosage, or an interaction with something else in their system, makes a tranquilizer gun potentially as lethal as a regular handgun or a taser.
  • stordoff 9y ago
    It's mentioned on Wikipedia that this is more or less the reason, FWIW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tranquillizer_gun#Military_and_police_use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tranquillizer_gun#Military_and... I'd also add there's the complicating factor of tolerance depending on the agent used (even if it took effect fast enough). Opiates would be a good choice (due to being relatively easily reversible by naloxone), but obviously would have diminished/unpredictable effects on a heavy opiate user. Likewise, benzodiazepines can have a huge range of active doses - a few hundred milligrams of, say, Temazepam could be bad news for a non-user (especially if they've been drinking), but I'm aware of people who have been awake and active despite having double that in their system.