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To: tejek who wrote (355032)	10/16/2007 2:32:37 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583380

You're probably right although I have to believe a surge of electricity in a body that is not in top shape can do some damage too The science is in and they already found it doesn't - to borrow a phrase - this is settled science. :-) biz.yahoo.com Human Studies and Analytical Reports Released Analyzing Cardiovascular and Physiologic Effects of TASER X26 Tuesday October 2, 7:30 am ET Studies Affirm TASER General Safety SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Oct. 2, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- TASER International, Inc. (NasdaqGS:TASR - News), a market leader in advanced electronic control devices, today announced that ten (10) new medical and scientific study posters, abstracts, and papers were published that document recent medical and scientific studies of TASER(r) technology. All of these studies affirmed the general safety of the TASER(r) electronic control device. Six (6) of these studies were presented at the Fourth Mediterranean Emergency Medicine Congress (MEMC IV), in Sorrento, Italy during September 15-18, 2007. Several of these studies used human volunteers that underwent cardiovascular and physiologic evaluations on the effects of TASER activation in a human body and reached the following conclusions Conclusions: TASER ECDs deliver electrical pulses that can temporarily incapacitate subjects. The goal of this paper is to analyze the distribution of TASER currents in the heart and understand their chances of triggering cardiac arrhythmias. The models analyzed herein describe strength-duration thresholds for myocyte excitation and ventricular fibrillation induction. Finite element modelling is used to compute current density in the heart for worst-case TASER electrode placement. The model predicts a maximum TASER current density of 0.27 mA/cm2 in the heart. It is conclude that the numerically simulated TASER current density in the heart is about half the threshold for myocytes excitation and more than 500 times lower than the threshold required for inducing ventricular fibrillation. Showing a substantial cardiac safety margin, TASER devices do not generate currents in the heart that are high enough to excite myocytes or trigger VF.

To: tejek who wrote (355032)	11/17/2007 5:03:19 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 1583380

Re: .....the taser seems to bring out the Sado in some of these guys. There is the video of the cop tasering a drunk woman......she would try to comply with his commands but he would taser her again. Its sickening to watch. Another way to put it is to say that a non-lethal weapon lowers the threshold at which its holder deems it fit to use it... Cops tend to be more trigger-happy with tasers, pepper sprays(),... than with guns --under the (false) assumption that it won't kill him/her anyway. I guess the clearance to allow law enforcement outfits to be equipped with tasers was a mistake --it should have been as stringent as a F&D clearance of a new drug... Taser manufacturers tested their "non-lethal" device on a few chimps and Bob's your uncle! That poor Polish fellow was scared to death, never heard of tasers and probably thought that the cop shot him pointblank with a BULLET! He never realized he was just tasered.... Anyway, why don't you pull the plug on that taser thing and fry people the good old way: () en.wikipedia.org