How many more will it take?

CCIP · 01-18-08, 02:57 PM

Besides, 64 officers in traffic stops in 10 years... not a terrifying number if you ask me. Perhaps that needs to be in context of the total number of traffic stops made each year.

It's not that I'm dismissing the danger entirely, but does this really justify using such a dangerous weapon in any situation where a stop doesn't go as planned? Also, how is tazer not "brutality"?

I'd rather people get roughed up a bit by police than have their internal organs potentially fried, for one. Likewise, I'm more willing to live with 6.4 officers killed in a country the size of the US each year due to this cause than risk these kinds of outcomes.

01-18-08, 02:57 PM	#23
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	Besides, 64 officers in traffic stops in 10 years... not a terrifying number if you ask me. Perhaps that needs to be in context of the total number of traffic stops made each year. It's not that I'm dismissing the danger entirely, but does this really justify using such a dangerous weapon in any situation where a stop doesn't go as planned? Also, how is tazer not "brutality"? I'd rather people get roughed up a bit by police than have their internal organs potentially fried, for one. Likewise, I'm more willing to live with 6.4 officers killed in a country the size of the US each year due to this cause than risk these kinds of outcomes. __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)