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They had knives, how about using a taser instead ? I have been saying for decades, regular cops in the US should not be allowed to carry guns. If they need he
by jmclnx 2y ago
They had knives, how about using a taser instead ?
I have been saying for decades, regular cops in the US should not be allowed to carry guns. If they need help, call fully trained people with guns.
Or maybe no guns unless they have a fully unblemished record, without any kind of complaint.
- kyleee 2y agoTasers fail frequently and knives are extremely deadly within a certain range. Yours is a very unconsidered opinion; not really helpful to this debate.
- dTal 2y agoGuns also fail frequently, in ways that are much deadlier to innocent and unprepared bystanders, as seen in the article. Perhaps tasers per se are not the answer, but there most certainly needs to be a range of nonlethal interventions available to police officers. The current system appears to be "turn up and make a snap decision who to murder to make the problem stop", which is - dare I say - a bad system. It is not even unreasonable to argue against giving government officials the power to simply end people on a whim at all.
- kyleee 2y agoI don’t necessarily disagree overall, but what does that have to do with the point about knives being very dangerous in close quarters, and tasers being a very poor/risky choice to try to stop someone trying to harm you/another with a knife? That’s what I was commenting on…