I don't know if this means I'm getting very sheltered in my old age - but that really is news to me. I've only ever seen them in use in demonstrations on TV, and the odd bit of online footage. I really did believe that they took any human being out with one hit...and that that was the point of it. Obviously everything I said was based on that understanding but, as it turns out, I don't know shit
Didn't the Scandinavians develop some kind of foam gun that shot a stream of liquid foam at targets legs which them expanded and hardened immobising them with very limited risk of injury?
There's a lot of misconceptions about tasers and maybe about Police/Policing. For example, someone on this thread questioned whether tasers are safe to use. Well, no they're not. They are a weapon and treated as such by the Police. Only firearms officers and limited numbers of taser trained officers carry them and are authorised to use them. Tasers are treated as firearms.
They are known to be potentially fatal in those with health defects and people tasered can sometimes be injured in falling. Even drawing a taser has to be logged by the force and notified with a full audit trail of rationale for deployment and drawing of the weapon.