Are Cops Giving Tasers A Bad Name

Last weeks tasering of a University of Florida student put tasers in the news again, and not in a good way. My own point of view is that the tasering of the student was unjustified. Even if he was just being stupid and annoying, he wasn’t endangering anyone, excepting maybe John Kerry’s brain.

And Kerry reacted just like the real time coward he is, standing around and watching, doing nothing to stop the incident. He had to be thinking that he was glad he didn’t have to answer a few tough questions from a mere student.

But enough with the cowardly lion, the hair that might have been president. Only Johnny Boy Edwards can top Kerry for vanity.

The point is, a lot of these anti gun, anti violence folks are focusing in on tasers as the cause of a big problem, not a solution.

Somewhere along the line their brains have disconnected, and they have tried to connect tasers with police brutality. And every now and then a cop does go over the line. It happened before tasers, and it will happen again. But it doesn’t make tasers bad.

Tasers, in fact,  save lives.

If a policeman draws his gun and shoots, the offender is usually hauled to the morgue. Not too many bodies can stand that kind of puncturing and keep on ticking.

Getting tasered may be painful, but you get to live.

And it isn’t as if they aren’t being used. Thousands of tasers are being used every day.

Amnesty International has only seven cases where a medical professional has linked a taser to a death. That doesn’t mean it caused the death, it means it may have been a factor in the death, along with many other factors.

Taser International has been sued 54 times for wrongful death. They have never come close to losing a case.

A company spokesman says this: “In a courtroom, media sound bytes don’t count. We have time to debunk the junk science, and demonstrate the value of our product.”

It boils down to this Bubba, the same as for guns.

Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.

Tasers don’t kill either, but they can be mishandled. That’s a police training issue, not a safety issue.

If you’re prepared, you’ll never be surprised,

Michael Gravette