I posted this comment on-line [link if & when published]:
The facts are that tasers are being used about 100 times as much as guns ever were; and they're being used in situations where police gun-fire would result in murder charges. These sad facts makes a lie of many of the pro-taser arguments. The present abuse, misuse and over-use of tasers simply has to be stopped, and stopped hard.
Most of the problems with tasers stem from the mindless propaganda coming from the manufacturer. These clowns have claimed, and continue to claim, that tasers are perfectly safe; except that the victim might bang their head on the way down. They deny any possibility of cardiac or other dangerous side-effects, no matter what. Their in-house medical expert has reportedly claimed that tasers are safe "under all circumstances". And these same idiots are involved with taser-use policy, and they set the training agenda. And thus they've recently been found liable for US$6.2M judgment because they knew, and failed to warn, about the dangers of multiple taserings; this related to an incident where a man died after being tasered at least 25 times.
All you have to do is study the issue a bit and you quickly see that Kennedy's recommendations are an excellent first step. Unfortunately, the message I see from Stockwell Day and the RCMP head is that they plan to MORE-OR-LESS (!!??!!) adopt those recommendations. ...
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