Don’t these guys carry tasers? Asking for a friend.
A taser is to disable someone who is not an imminent mortal threat.
Maybe we should equip police officers with lassoes so they can rope and hog tie suicidal people attacking them with bladed weapons.
In the comments to the article (below a few ads), there is a knowledgeable answer to your question. What I gathered is this: tabernacle depends on a secure contact with the person being tased, so clothing and other factors can make a difference to effectiveness.
And in many places, police can not be holding both a gun and a taser — one or the other must be holsters.
In this scenario, had the officer tried to tase the boy and failed, the boy could easily have killed him before he got his pistol.
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The problem with dealing with people who are mentally ill is that they tend to behave very erratically and in ways we would not expect. We have general ideas of how things will go, but a person with serious mental illness generally does not have that type of understanding. Unfortunately, that makes them more dangerous.
So you’re grossly ignorant of how often tasers don’t work?
Got it.