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To: John Carragher who wrote (599)	2/24/2005 9:34:21 AM
From: im a survivor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 974

<<The worst thing is stop the tasrs as i believe they save injuries to police and those they are trying to arrest. A good example of a tasr opportunity was the picture on the news in Japan? of cops running from a nut with a baseball bat. If they had a tasr they could have shot him , without it they ran. >> I think the consensus opinion is that TASR is a good WEAPON and should NOT be tossed into the waste bin.....They ARE better then guns and they ARE useful in certain arenas....my whole point are the problems surrounding TASR, mainly because they continue to push this as a NON LETHAL weapon. No, do NOT get rid of TASR's...DEclare them as LETHAL and REGULATE them, and then I think TASR becomes a good investement, assuming the big gun makers dont become competitors...if I was TASR and NEW somebody like smith and wesson was getting involved, I would be very concerned....as far as the woman running away....why can't tha cops use those shoting nests they have...they work for a very good distance, obviously they are not harmful unless somebody falls and hits their head or something, and as long as the person is not armed with a GUN, the shooting net is an excellent way to subdue anybody...I have seen it used...I have seen a 300lb guy get taken down and wrapped and tangled up so bad, he couldn't fight back, resist or anything..the more he tried to fight and get untangled, the more tangled he got.....now that is a non leathal restraint device I would like to see used more......

To: John Carragher who wrote (599)	2/24/2005 10:07:41 AM
From: Yogizuna	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 974

Yes, I had a similar experience growing up as a kid. The most destructive kid on our block (tried to burn down a house at 8 or 9 years old, and liked to kill trees), and another one, the biggest bully around, encouraged to be so by his father, both became police officers in a large NJ city. And I will never forget the time I had to visit someone in the projects in Newark, and a white police officer started beating a black kid for not "moving on" quickly enough... Then there was the time a cop almost shot me in the face for stealing my own car. Seems the department did not inform their officers properly that my car had been found a few days before... Plenty of other stories also, but do not want to bore the readers here. Anyway, I agree that using a taser is better than firing a gun at somebody, as long as the "safety" of the weapon does not lead to further police brutality.