Re: Tasers

shawn wrote:
> 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.
> 

As a side benefit, the cops would then have no use for expensive 
Tasers(tm) anymore, and could simply dispense with them and use their
guns.

Eyeroll.