Thursday, June 11, 2009

Tasers

I Actually agree that police should carry tasers. I like the Idea. I'd prefer to be Tasered than shot and possibly killed. There is a problem though and it's the people using the tasers they tend to just use them when ever and for what ever reason. It seems to happen quite frequently in the US. Travis County police recently used a taser to subdue a dangerous person who was pulled over for speeding. This person proved to be unco-operative and the policeman felt the need to taser the person to protect himself. Below is the raw footage from the police camera of the incident.

Oh just one other thing the person who had bee pulled over was a 72 year old great grandmother.



So how to stop incidents like this. Well maybe to carry a Taser you need to have experienced the pain it causes. Every policeman that wants to carry a taser will have to be shocked by one once then they can use them. If the officer is then ever found to be using their taser in a totally inappropriate way such as in the video above they will subjected to a full work day of being tasered once every 10 minutes with a break for lunch of course.

I'm sure that the fear of that happening would make people think twice before using their taser on grannies

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