I have a Taser because I have kids in the house.
Never had to use it, but have had target practice on downing the bunnies and chipmunks that are eating my flower every summer.
Does work better than the bucket of death method I tried years ago!
Ahhhh, got one beautiful garden right now.
“I have a Taser because I have kids in the house.”
And how much training have you had with a Taser?
Now all of my children are grown (all survived w/o shooting each other or the doggy), I now train defensive handgun professionally after having served 23+ years as a Solider in the US Army; all my offspring are quite proficient at arms and defense; they are on their own now and I would feel less than responsible if I did not insure they had the tools and training to survive a lethal force encounter.
A family that shoots together survives together; just as surely as one that “prays together, stays together”!!!!
Why would one trust their precious youngsters to a single shot non-lethal tool? Could you live with having only one shot and missing or failing to stop the threat to them?
Ah, yes; because guns are bad and children shoot each other with them-nonsense-”train your child up as they should go and when they are old they will not depart from it”. Children learn quite well and logically at a young age.
The most important aspect of training a toddler anything is to allow it, with parameters-in the case of a firearm, let them help you clean and care for your arms, discuss the danger associated with them and the safety aspects as well. As they mature, they must know that you trust them enough to allow them to shoot a pellet gun, a 22 and full sized rifle/pistol/shotgun etc as they are able, but ALWAYS ALWAYS under supervision and with deliberate focus on safety and simply step by step guidance ONE AT A TIME!!!!
Do you think leaving a TASER around is any less safe than a firearm? (I now you don't) I'd tend to think that a toddler would be seriously injured if not killed by a TASER just as by a firearm.
I recommend you get the Massad Ayoob booklet “Firearms Primer” from the Police Bookshelf, Concord NH (search the web for online ordering).
Nonlethal is a non-starter for self-defense!
God Bless and MOLON LABE!