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The 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
The 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
The 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
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Imagine living in a world with no bad actors or mentally unstable people
It’s simpler than that, just imagine living in a world where the people you mentioned aren’t given a badge, several weapons and virtual immunity against prosecution
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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?
If you didn't have a taser you might be inclined to get really good at negotiating with people. You might be less inclined to try to dominate a situation.
So I saw the title and thought of something else. You see I own this book. It is from 1911. As a child in the 80s I read what was the third updated Tom Swift books. That lead me to the 1960s set and then to the original set from the 1910s. I have all of the 80s and 60s set and I own 9 of the ones from the 1910s and I am looking for the rest.
Franklin W. Dixon (Hardy Boys) and Carolyn Keene were pen names for a variety of authors. So they keep the title and author and mostly the plot but change the words to avoid anachronisms.
So I saw the title and thought of something else. You see I own this book. It is from 1911. As a child in the 80s I read what was the third updated Tom Swift books. That lead me to the 1960s set and then to the original set from the 1910s. I have all of the 80s and 60s set and I own 9 of the ones from the 1910s and I am looking for the rest.
The most famous example of this is the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew series. They've been re-written 4 or 5 times, basically updated for each generation. Franklin W. Dixon (Hardy Boys) and Carolyn Keene were pen names for a variety of authors. So they keep the title and author and mostly the plot but change the words to avoid anachronisms.
So I saw the title and thought of something else. You see I own this book. It is from 1911. As a child in the 80s I read what was the third updated Tom Swift books. That lead me to the 1960s set and then to the original set from the 1910s. I have all of the 80s and 60s set and I own 9 of the ones from the 1910s and I am looking for the rest.
The most famous example of this is the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew series. They've been re-written 4 or 5 times, basically updated for each generation. Franklin W. Dixon (Hardy Boys) and Carolyn Keene were pen names for a variety of authors. So they keep the title and author and mostly the plot but change the words to avoid anachronisms.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18534629 ("The Secret Syndicate Behind Nancy Drew")
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1705714 ("The Hardy Boys - The final chapter (1998)")
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any physical altercation carries the risk of death or serious injury. do tasers have an especially bad risk vs. use threshold?
The alternative to taser use is not necessarily physical altercation. If you didn't have a taser you might be inclined to get really good at negotiating with people. You might be less inclined to try to dominate a situation.
it seems to me that it would be better to focus on the negotiation skills themselves; people won't bet their life on skills they don't feel confident in. or better yet, raise the bar for what justifies a confrontation in the first place. the cops who killed freddie gray didn't even have a charge in mind when they decided to pursue him. they chased him just because he ran away.