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

[mstriumph]

don't break the law you won't get tasered...????

yeah
history proves that the authorities never intefere with law-abiding citizens ... NOT




........ and I haven't hugged a tree in ..... well ..... HOURS!!

[mstriumph]

No...the second shot is in the ceiling....the "warning shot"!

sadly enough, when i was taking my firearms licence test in RSA that's EXACTLY what the police officer in charge instructed me ......


sadly enough, were i armed and under imminent threat of my life, that's exactly what i would do.

[jrandom]

sadly enough, when i was taking my firearms licence test in RSA that's EXACTLY what the police officer in charge instructed me ......

They have 'warning shots' in RSA?

I thought you could take kaffir scalps into the local copshop for cash rewards. Enterprising suburbanites would dangle electronic consumer goods as bait outside their lounge windows when game was scarce, etc.

[FJRider]

I think (occasionally) that if given a choice between getting shot by...
a. A Taser.
b. A Glock.

mmmmmm... personally I would choose option a. ...any guess's why...

[avgas]

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

[FJRider]

The last guy they shot lost his leg...

[FJRider]

sadly enough, when i was taking my firearms licence test in RSA that's EXACTLY what the police officer in charge instructed me ......


sadly enough, were i armed and under imminent threat of my life, that's exactly what i would do.

I'm ex Army... what are "warning" shots. Have a weapon.... use it.

[<Rhino>]

As a matter of fact YES I do still want them armed. Chances of me being out for a jog are slim... however, should I be out and I see cops turn up and hear them yell out to stop... then stop I shall, as should everybody within earshot. It will soon become apparent who they are talking to and if they've got the wrong man it will get sorted in the subsequent discussion.

The thing is that bugger all people in NZ and in particular the criminal element have any respect for the Police. Talking a criminal out of violent behaviour may work once in a while but more often than not the cops get nothing but abuse hurled back. That would happen a lot less if the Cop had his firearm drawn (and yes there are the cases where firearms still dont work... that is when the trigger gets pulled). I have been out with the Police and witnessed many incidents where I have thought a firearm or even a Tazer would have been warranted. Not necessarily to be fired but as a deterrant.

Dont get me wrong - Im not JUST for arming the Police... Im also for making life mean LIFE, prison cells 6ft square and concrete, Prison meals bland and repetitive, bringing back hard labour and chain gangs, minimising criminals rights, justice for victims of crime and corporal punishment in schools.

NZ is a Country where the namby pamby, left wing, politically correct, tree hugging do gooders have all the say and the majority are left wondering WTF.

About time it changed

I agree with you here, we have become very over regulated, hell your not even aloud to smack your kids anymore... You can however points your finger and say, you've been a very naughty boy for the good that'll do..

Give em guns, give em tazers, I for one have seen the police on the other end of violence and patched them up afterwards, in fact I've even had one his body on the line when I was getting pushed around by somone I was trying to treat. As said before, they do a job that bugger all other people want to do for a hell of a lot less then most that don't raise a finger, get off their backs and put your money where you mouth is and help make our communities better safer places to live, then there would be no need for tazers or guns!

[FJRider]

........ and I haven't hugged a tree in ..... well ..... HOURS!!

Remember... "interfering" with a tree in a public place is an offence.
In this P.C. world... did the tree give you permission for you to "hug" it...???

[mstriumph]

..................
I'm sick and tired of people giving cops shit, they're doing a hard job that few people want to do, and the fact that many people go out of their way to make a cops job difficult pisses me off...........................

erm - generalizations are so infrequently apt ...... if a police-person DESERVES shit on an individual basis i really see no problem in them getting it

- call it behaviour modification therapy, a lesson in customer relations, an indication of what your ultimate employer [the general public] expects of you as regards on the job courtesy, call it what you will. I see no reason that the same standards of civility shouldn't apply to the police as are expected to the rest of us plebs.

Yes - i got a ticket this week
- the infant police couple's marvelous hand-held machine [which must have been pointed at me through moving traffic and half a dozen random pedestrians from the vantage point where they were using it.......] allegedly clocked me at an impossibly high speed pulling away from a roadworks [it's a GETZ for gawd's sake - it couldn't DO zero to 100 in the 100 odd meters concerned even if it's arse was on fire ......]

logic made no impression on the infants who were immune to the humour of the situation, stuck their pointly little heels in and became increasingly obdurate and - well, 'smirky' seems to be the only applicable word ........ nasty it was

well - since they were deaf to commonsense and it is lengthy, inconvenient, expensive and pointless to persue such things thru the courts, i was left with no alternative

i cursed them

i did it with a certain amount of sadness - and no small compassion for their youth and inexperience .... but i saw no alternative

so - IF they ever decide on a european holiday [and what young red-blooded ozzie doesn't] and happen to be passing through France under a new moon.....they will turn into frogs

the french national cuisine will then take care of the matter and honour will be satisfied

[mstriumph]

Remember... "interfering" with a tree in a public place is an offence.
In this P.C. world... did the tree give you permission for you to "hug" it...???

it barked at me
wouldn't leaf me alone
- so i hugged it in self-defence

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

........ and I haven't hugged a tree in ..... well ..... HOURS!!

but that in itself would get you tasered as i'm sure its breaking the law somehow?

[FJRider]

it barked at me
wouldn't leaf me alone
- so i hugged it in self-defence

Could you not try "arbourtration" ...???

[MSTRS:Me]

Dont get me wrong - Im not JUST for arming the Police... Im also for making life mean LIFE, prison cells 6ft square and concrete, Prison meals bland and repetitive, bringing back hard labour and chain gangs, minimising criminals rights, justice for victims of crime and corporal punishment in schools.

NZ is a Country where the namby pamby, left wing, politically correct, tree hugging do gooders have all the say and the majority are left wondering WTF.

About time it changed

Oh that it were so.

[alanzs]

They have 'warning shots' in RSA?

I guess that's the difference between the NRA and the SRA, the NRA has no warning shot. I was NRA trained, you pull it out and point it, its for using deadly force. Isn't that what they are for?