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Taser Study Refutes Claims of Taser Safety
- Taser stun guns may not be as safe as their manufacturer claims, according to a study carried out by Chicago researchers, CBC News has learned.
The team of doctors and scientists at the trauma centre in Chicago's Cook County hospital stunned 11 pigs with Taser guns in 2006, hitting their chests with 40-second jolts of electricity, pausing for 10 to 15 seconds, then hitting them for 40 more seconds.
When the jolts ended, every animal was left with heart rhythm problems, the researchers said. Two of the animals died from cardiac arrest, one three minutes after receiving a shock.
The findings call into question safety claims made by Taser International, the Arizona company that makes the stun guns, which are used by dozens of police departments across Canada.
According to Taser International's website, "independent medical and scientific experts have determined Taser devices to be among the safest use-of-force options available."
Tasers need to be treated like the dangerous weapons that they are. At least let's get honest. Yes, better than gun if used instead of a gun. However...the stories making the news are not taserings being used in place of guns...they are cattle prods being used in place of having a conscience.
- Would the police really have shot the man they found asleep on his own couch in his own home?
- Would they have really shot the 17 year girl who was in her own room?
- How about the guy they found distraught in a Canadian airport? [Rest in Peace Robert Dziekanski]
- Or the [black] diabetic man they found passed out in his car due to a seizure
- Or the [black] man who didn't pull out his license fast enough?
- Or the woman who was already handcuffed?
- Or the man at the Kerry speech [aka "the "Don't tase me bro!" guy
- Or the kid who forgot his ID in the school library?
- Or the [black] man on the phone outside an establishment who was tasered for seemingly just being black. This abusive officer had waited until his comrades had walked ahead before doing a "walk by" shocking of this citizen.
- Or the man who was tasered for filming a warrantless police search?
Are any of us ignorant enough to believe that in the above cases, a police officer would really have shot the victim with a gun? This is what the police would have us believe when they say: "They're safer than guns." Are any of us ignorant enough to believe Taser International's Claims of Safety? Sure. They have no vested interest; of course they're impartial!
Ban Tasers
- BettyJoBradley rated 6 months ago
- Tasers have a place in law enforcement. There. I said it. Shooting a potentially dangerous subject with a Taser, rather than shooting him or her with a gun, is a good option for police officers to have. And I am glad researchers are studying Tasers to determine their relative safety and effectiveness. The problem is that police have been using Tasers too much just because the officers can, it seems. Too many times the situation did not call for force; yet the police used a Taser. Stories of police zapping a suspect who already has been subdued are too frequent. Maybe researchers need to study the mind of a cop who gets a suspect down and in hand cuffs, and then zaps the suspect anyway. Or zaps a college student who asked probing questions of the speaker at a campus event. Or zaps and kills a man at an airport when the man, who speaks a foreign language, is sad that he has been separated from and cannot locate his elderly mother.
