Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle (2017)
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Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle (2017)
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Re: Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle (2017)
#2Sure there is no silver bullet, because it's not tasers that taser people....
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#3Sure there is no silver bullet, because it's not tasers that taser people....
Just as surely, hit by a taser is 99.9% better outcome than getting a bullet hole in your body.
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#4Sure there is no silver bullet, because it's not tasers that taser people....
Just as surely, hit by a taser is 99.9% better outcome than getting a bullet hole in your body.
Are there statistics that show taser use decreased the number of bullets fired/hitting civilians by the police? I find conflicting results. https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/police-use-force-impact-... (2011):
A new study suggests that less-lethal weapons decrease rates of officer and offender injuries
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/18/theres-no-evidence-tasers-re... (2018):
“We find no substitutions between Tasers and firearms,” Professor Jeffrey Grogger told CNBC. The study reviewed 36,112 use-of-force incidents in Chicago
Re: Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle (2017)
#5The lesser of two evils is still evil.
We don't need kinder weapons. We need a way to stop using weapons so much.
Thinly veiled advertisements for Axon (makers of Taser!) only exploit concerns and don't fix the real problems.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just as surely, hit by a taser is 99.9% better outcome than getting a bullet hole in your body.
Tasers do still kill people. And the threshold to using them is a lot lower than a gun.
any physical altercation carries the risk of death or serious injury. do tasers have an especially bad risk vs. use threshold?
Re: Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle (2017)
#8https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolaser
I have high hopes for this, whenever someone decides to come out with a commercial handheld one
Re: Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle (2017)
#9The lesser of two evils is still evil. We don't need kinder weapons. We need a way to stop using weapons so much. Thinly veiled advertisements for Axon (makers of Taser!) only exploit concerns and don't fix the real problems.
Imagine living in a world with no bad actors or mentally unstable people
Re: Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle (2017)
#10I recall hearing that in the absence of tasers baton use went up higher than firearms use. Even if tasers may be used unnecessary they still appear to be a net good