You are wrong. How many people die each year from being wrestled to the ground, simply handcuffed or even whacked with a night stick? Now, look up the statistics for how many people die each year from being tasered(and the number is growing each year as more cops resort to this "non-lethal" method of control).
True a cop can't tell if someone is armed by looking at them, but neither can they tell if someone has a medical condition which will kill them if they are tasered. I have a pace maker, tasers could kill me, easily, hitting me with a night stick wouldn't do me near as much harm, or better yet telling me I was going to be arrested and then handcuffing me.
If someone is going to submit, then using a taser is stupid, if not, then other means are justified, but I think tasers should be classified with firearms as lethal because they have proven to be. If they can kill, they are lethal.
BTW, contrary to one idiots opinion on FR of people who protest taser use, I have never been arrested and certainly not tasered.
Police deaths from the alternatives easily outpaced incidental taser deaths. This was all discussed when tasers were first issued. Departments and agencies had no trouble justifying the implementation of tasers against other forms of combat and restraint.
Sorry about your pacemaker.
Other people have conditions which preclude them from being wrassled to the ground.
Some people have asthma that reacts to pepper spray.
Of all the forms of restraint the taser has the lowest injury and death rate.