> It's better than troops just gunning people down Except you're far more likely to use it. This is why cops don't shoot to "injure" instead of kill (also, it

> It's better than troops just gunning people down Except you're far more likely to use it. This is why cops don't shoot to "injure" instead of kill (also, it's hard enough for them to hit center of mass in a tense situation; there's no way they hit a leg.) It's lethal force. Which means that for its use to be legal, that person has to die because they are an imminent lethal threat to others. If injury is sufficient to resolve a situation, they weren't an imminent lethal threat. Tasers started out as a way to temporarily incapacitate someone so you didn't have to shoot them. Now they're being used as compliance and corporal punishment devices. Lots of videos out there of cops ordering people to do something while shocking them with something that makes their entire body lock up and is extremely painful. They know the person can't do what they want them to. "Stop resisting!" while tasering someone is the cop version of "stop hitting yourself!"