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Drats! I thought I had one powerpoint? It certainly says I do at the top of the page. I'll chalk it up once again to my own stupidity.
"Probably the most compelling argument to date that the use of Tasers should be banned is the fact that several large police departments -- in Las Vegas, Phoenix and Scottsdale, Ariz. -- have now prohibited testing them on fellow officers during training exercises. This is due to the proliferation of severe injuries and subsequent lawsuits by injured officers."
"Florida woman in wheelchair dies after taser shock"
"Pennsylvania cops use taser on diabetic man
The man was almost completely unconscious when police used the taser. The officers believed that the man was refusing to comply with their orders."
"cops taser citizen for videotaping them performing illegal search"
"http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2007/10/19/cops-taser-citizen-for-videotaping-them/"
"cops beat and taser NYPD son FOUR TIMES at barbeque"
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/09/17/2007-09-17_nypd_veteran_says_cops_beat_tasered_teen.html
"Deputy tasers high school student against direct orders"
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Deputy_tasers_high_school_student_against_0219.html
"A police officer in Boca Raton, Florida, was suspended for three days this week for aiming a taser at the forehead of a 16 year old boy."
"http://nodonut.egoweblog.com/blog/bad_cop_no_donut/taser/2006/04/26/jacksonville_taser_death
There's hundreds and hundreds more. There's been almost 200 wrongful deaths from tasers since 1999 in the USA. These were not "drug addicts" or "dangerous people". They were normal people, who would do something like ask for an officers badge number, or maybe they were diabetic and having a seizure (or coma), there's so many countless ugly, horrible stories out there.
Are you one of those guys who thinks that if the police want to, they can search your car and house? That if you "don't have anything to hide" then why should you worry?
I hope not.
I am certain that Tasers have saved many more lives than they have taken.
I am also certain that more police officers are killed each year by savage suspects than suspects have been killed by Taser accidents."
I'd like to know where you get your certainty from.
"saved more lives"? Where on earth could you ever find data to suggest that tasers have even saved a single life? Were there large amounts of people who would otherwise be dead if it weren't for the invention of the taser? Where would you get that data from?
I think you've completely created this scenario in your head, and taught yourself to believe it.
The key difference is that it is not only law officers who have these things, but also low-paid, unskilled, untrained security personnel for office buildings, event staff, universities, gated communites and elsewhere all have these things now, and if you're about to trust your or my safety to someone who is so unskilled and untrained, that's pretty wild.