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To: average joe who wrote (381224)	9/6/2010 2:17:45 PM
From: Tom Clarke	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793921

Thomas Woods at Nullify Now! (Part 1 of 4) youtube.com

To: average joe who wrote (381224)	9/6/2010 2:32:20 PM
From: ManyMoose	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793921

Anybody who went to that kind of training should demand that the training be revised. It's unjustified to taser people who are otherwise under verbal control. In my opinion, the ROE for tasering should not be much different from that for shooting. In other words, if the situation calls for shooting and the person is not armed, use a taser instead. If the person is armed, then shoot. I have yet to see a video that depicts justified tasering. Tasering should not be considered a kinder-gentler shooting. Tasering should not be routinely used just because it isn't supposed to be fatal. I shudder, because my 92 year old father-in-law was very argumentative at an airport screening on his way to a POW conference last year. He had Maalox in his carry-on. They demanded that he remove it, to which they objected. He couldn't comprehend why they wanted to take it away, despite admonitions from his son who accompanied him. It was resolved satisfactorily by having the Maalox transferred to checked baggage. It's lucky his son was there, who was able to draw on his own flight-attendant employment history to help defuse the situation. I'm a peaceable man, so I don't know whether I'd get into the fray or not if I'd been there, but I sure as heck resentful of airport screening procedures myself. I don't know what I'd do if they had tasered him in my presence. I pray that my response would not be cowardly.