what's with the DUer obsession with tasers?

[redsoxliberal]

:wtf: :shrug:

[name not needed]

1. I'll taser you for that, smartass.

[realisticphish]

6. BZZZT

[redsoxliberal]

7. *shiver*

[Sugar Smack]

2. It's a fun word to say!!

Taser.

;-)

[redsoxliberal]

8. I'll go along with that.

[lostnfound]

3. A healthy distrust of totalitarian government

however it develops.

And a romantic sentimentality about inalienable rights to life and liberty.

And an imagination for the future which is lacking in a typical sheep.

[redsoxliberal]

5. still... why taser?

[Technowitch]

4. The cops started the obsession first

Now, all you gotta do, in some places, is look at a police officer wrong. Before you know it, you'll be on the ground, twitching.

And if you show any sign of recovering, they'll taser you again. And again.

I tend to think that it's precisely BECAUSE the taser is assumed to be non-lethal that they're all the more willing to use it.

(This post is not intended as a knock against all the good cops out there. For I do believe they make up the majority. But it only take a few...)

[JohnKleeb]

9. fetish?

[Warren Stupidity]

10. obsession?

There is legitimate concern that the police are off using supposedly 'non-lethal' weapons at the drop of a hat and are killing people as a result. Tasers seem to be in use for not responding fast enough to any question put to you by a LEO at any time in any situation. Not by all cops, not even by most, but the number of stories in the news about people getting tasered to ill-effect (as in they died) for highly dubious reasons is a bit disconcerting.

I started to get concerned about the cavalier use of supposedly non-lethal high tech weaponry after that unfortunate girl got killed by a 'non-lethal' crowd control gun after the red sox beat the yankees. The attitude was basically 'oh well, she shouldn't have been there'. The fact that she was not a participant in any illegal activities and that the gun was, it seemed, aimed at her head (and she was not the only person hit by a weapon that is supposed to be used to launch dispersal agents above a crowd, not to shoot people) did not seem to bother the media much.

[redsoxliberal]

11. yes, I agree. It is a problem. But doesn't it seem that some DUers

are somewhat obsessed with the actual tasers... not the issue?

[Warren Stupidity]

12. It is sort of an icon for our times

When in doubt: taser.

Torture as acceptable practice: a high tech veneer over bestial behavior.