Well judging from some of the comments on youtube you're not alone in your sentiments, however there are more than a few instances now where people are dying left and right from being tased so sometimes it works just as well as a gun.
>> people are dying left and right from being tased so sometimes it works just as well as a gun. <<
There’s no reasoning with anyone who would make such a statement. If you shoot a guy, you will always cause a severe injury. If you taser him, 99% of the time, you do not cause a severe injury. (A study of 1000 taser victims found three had injuries which required hospitalization and 2 died, although not (necessarily) from the taser.)
There are several cases where people were killed after receiving multiple taser shots. Clearly, however, a single taser shot is not normally lethal. That said, tasers can be very cruel, and that fact needs to be given grave consideration whenever their use is approved.
This guy, however, did everything he possibly could to justify getting himself tasered.