Gee, Mike Bryant, another blood sucking personal injury trial lawyer is the only comment you can collect? You and the terrorists at amnesty international deserve each other. Don't you know, Taser Saves Lives Everyday. Tasers bring control to the uncontrolable and that is what AI hates. Lawyers like you only care about sueing someone.

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A most interesting news report. But the truth is really unimportant to the public or the politicians.
It only becomes important when the tragidy touches home or for politicians if it impacts their ablity to get reelected.
Case in point. Taser sends their people to medical and coroner simposiums, and there, Taser peddles their "E.D" catch all answer to the many deaths where the weapon was deployed.
This company through slick marketing and public relations moves have convinced everyone that the the people who are ending up dead are dead by their own doing. To add to this Taser has a systematicly intimidated many coroners,M.E. and forensic pathologists into using the "E.D." answer to avoid being drug into litigation.
As more truly independent research is compiled on this weapon I beleive that it will become apparent that the reserch funded and supported by Taser will be found to have been engineered from the outset to be supportive of their position and not in the public or law enforcments best interest.
My name is Kurt Kastner and I watched my brother-in-law Robert Heston die from being tasered to death.

I think the important difference between a taser and a gun is that cops are far more inclined to pull out a taser for essentially NOTHING. In the past they had to either use a stick or a gun, both of which leave evidence of clear over-reaction to someone arguing a traffic ticket or speaking loudly. Is that because the cops are under the impression the Taser is harmless? Maybe. But a gun doesn't kill anyone either - blood loss does. So nobody can say a Taser doesn't kill and the death came from something else, unless they also claim guns can't kill.

Recently I was nearly Tasered for trying to catch a kitten on a grocery store property. The kitten was in the woods, I used a machete to clear some wild roses so I could put Havahart traps in the edge of the woods. One of the store's retarded employees saw me with the machete and told the manager that there was a man waving a big knife outside. FOUR cops responded, 30 minutes later. I was sitting in the grass with a magazine, the machete was at that point locked in my car 20 feet away. I never got angry, and after about 10 minutes the oldest one left because there was no reason for 4 of them to be there as I was calm, unarmed and cooperative. However, as I was being ordered to leave, I raised my voice to the group of employees sitting outside watching and said "Thanks boys, now the kitten will die". For this the boy cop started to reach for his Taser. This guy is younger then my kids, and smaller than me, so he must have either been scared or in a hurry to prove how tough he is. He tried to violate my First Amendment guarantee by telling me I shouldn't have said anything. I calmly told him he didn't need the Taser, I wasn't going to get violent, and his reply was that HE would decide if he needed it or not.

My point - for no reason whatsoever (or maybe only a personal emotional reason) this guy was going Taser me. I'm 60 years old, lame from injuries, there were still 3 officers present, and I was not loud, violent, argumentative or even resistant. He might have killed me with it, but he apparently thought of it as an appropriate response to someone who didn't act afraid of him or the situation. Watch the videos on YouTube, from the cops dash-cams themselves, and you'll see these jack-boot assholes zapping little old ladies because they can't find their licenses in their purses fast enough. This really is a problem. They may be appropriate for personal defense, but the police are just too quick to go for them. It was that way with Mace too, only that killed very seldom as far as what one heard in the news.

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Please google the taser's "Curious Temporal Asymmetry".

Mr. Cool, tasers do not save lives and are never used when a cop feels his life is REALLY in danger. Cops use tasers because they are psychopaths and psychopaths love to torture, especially in the sadistic, painful, and degrading way a taser affords them. Like Ted Bundy, bullying and torturing people is what passes for normal sex to a cop.

William Cole, your point is well taken: be “submissive” and slavishly “obedient” to your masters like a good subject or you get what you deserve.