Reply #49: Not again...

[Beel2112]

"At what point does taser admit that their device has been responsible for the deaths of more than 100 people, some of whom were guilty of nothing at all?"

I'd really like to see your source for that "fact". You're not pulling another one of these things where "Die after being tasered"="Killed by taser, despite what the coroner reports say", things are you? And before you run off citing Amnesty's report, I'd like to quote their synopsis:

"In the past three years, more than 70 people have died in the USA and Canada after being struck by M26 or X26 tasers. Some medical experts believe taser shocks may exacerbate a risk of heart failure in cases where people are agitated or under the influence of drugs. In at least four cases, coroners have found the taser directly contributed to death."

In other words, out of the ~70 deaths, there's only conclusive proof that 4 involved the taser at all. That's ~1.33/year, or, out of those ~70 deaths, 3% were actually caused by the Taser. If you want to argue for better restrictions/regulations/training, fine, but don't go running around screaming that the Taser is killing people left and right.

And isn't it odd that Amnesty's numbers coincide so closely with that other report you & others were citing in that other thread? The "73 people killed by tasers" when if you had read the report, the number more closer to 8?