Re: Tasers

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:17:19 -0400, "Sharon Too"
<askformyaddy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>> Pick up a newspaper sometime.   Cops do use Tasers where they
>> aren't waranted.  Not everyone who is tasered is an axe murderer.
>
>You can't make policies around rare exceptions - right or not. For the
VAST 
>MAJORITY of those tased, it is the right thing to do. Replace "taser" in 
>your examples with "shot with a gun" and imagine the outcome.

I think you just made it very easy to come up with  a policy that
covers these situations. Don't use a taser in a situation where you
wouldn't use a gun. If cops followed that policy I don't think any of
the situations I've noticed would have occurred.