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To: thefactor

You said tasers should be used ONLY when the alternative would be the officer pulling their gun. That includes, but is not limited to, someone pulling a gun on a cop.
So please explain what I am missing.


what i was trying to say was that Tasers can do a lot of good if only the police would use it with caution. this does not mean that i want the police to pull a Taser when someone pulls a gun... this only means that many fatal shootings may could be prevented if the police would/could have used a Taser. so Tasers are not all bad. their are only bad if the police misuse it for “minjor threats” like it looks like some of the officers do it all the time. that´s why i posted this video. this would be a perfect example where they could have used a Taser. it looks like they didn´t had one so they finally had to shoot him (and they where right to do this at the end). but this could have been prevented. this was all i wanted to say.


79 posted on 12/14/2009 2:20:03 PM PST by darkside321
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To: darkside321

you’re kidding me. you think a taser would have been a better choice against that guy with the knife in the video? i hope you’re not a cop because your partner would be in a whole heap of trouble.


85 posted on 12/14/2009 5:37:05 PM PST by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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