Tasers safe.. as long as you are in the police

[Griffin]

The last guy they shot lost his leg...

AND... deservedly so - he should have lost a lot more, the lowlife scum sucking piece of filth that he is. Its bastards like that that absolutely reinforce my view that the Cops should be armed. Talk to his victims families and see if they think the bullet he took was enough in their opinion...

[Patrick]

I'd quite like to take the 5-second Taser ride. Just out of curiosity.

Are you allowed to shoot up any of your mates who want a go, or does the cost of filing the Tasercam footage, etc, mean that you'd get in trouble if you did?

The paperwork alone will cost thousands of trees their innocent lives....

Mouth off all you like and you'll be done for disorderly conduct, and then the little shits will resist arrest and then bzzzt. I would rather have a cop end a dispute decisively with a tazer than have it escalate into a full blown fist fight.

Lets face it, if there is someone that a cop can't subdue by themselves, then chances are they won't sustain any damage from a tazer shot. Maybe, just maybe, the next time they will cooperate.


(I don't know the stats, but I don't think anyone has died directly as a result of a tazer shot)

Most have dicky tickers... but that didn't stop them playing up in the first place, ay?

Think back a few months.

Think Canada,

Think non English speaking male

Think airport.

He wouldnt do as he was told , cos he couldnt speak English.

Police tasered him and he died.

Think non English speaking male would have been shot in his own country...

Think non English speaking male would have been calm when Police in uniform are pointing gun like objects at him... not throwing chairs at them....

Think dicky ticker...

... you're fucked everywhich way! - but at least there is some form of accountability.

Life in prison for killing a cop? (Out in 10 years or so...?) They will pay for my families needs for the rest of their lives?

Accountability? Yeah... right....

The rest of the post was good though... but people don't get shot for being lippy then resisting, so again, it is one step short of being shot with a pistol / rifle. The tazer aint gonna be used in this situation and it will turn into a fist fight or spray.....

i'd rather be tazered than shot.
bullets kill these days, and the cops aim is shit so they will never just shoot something like my arm - or mabey im not hard enough, and should just get shot.
Either that or give the cops slug guns - and all thats gonna do is just piss me off

The last guy they shot lost his leg...

Yep... their aim was shit..... Re-training for those pricks.... Centre of mass... centre of mass.... centre of mass....

[gunrunner]

They would be useful for cooking on the bbq

[marty]

Funnily enough, I have no fear that I will be tazered or shot by the Police.

On the 2 occasions that I felt the need to pull my firearm, but ended up pepper spraying, I believe a tazer would have been the much more effective disabler.

A tazer wouldn't have saved Duncan's life, Stu Guthrie's life, nor Derek Wooton's life, but it sure as shit would have prevented some serious injuries in the past few years.

[SPman]

The thing is that bugger all people in NZ and in particular the criminal element have any respect for the Police.

So, giving them all guns and expecting them to use them, will give them back the respect of the community and in particular, the criminal element?

Sorry - fear is not respect!

To many people seem to have great difficulty distinguishing between the two - they must have pretty fucked up self esteems.........

[scumdog]

So, giving them all guns and expecting them to use them, will give them back the respect of the community and in particular, the criminal element?

Sorry - fear is not respect!

To many people seem to have great difficulty distinguishing between the two - they must have pretty fucked up self esteems.........

No..but the next time somebody fronts me up with a rifle or length of wood want to see them do the funky chicken

I don't care about whether THAT kind of sorry-arsed cheese-dick mofo has respect for me or not.

[Patrick]

Lawbreakers have no respect for anything. They can fear having 50,000 volts surge through their limbs.

Law abiders have nothing to fear...