http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/ Engadget Comments for "Largest ever" study finds tasers safe http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/Oct 9th 2007 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/Oct 9th 2007 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/Oct 9th 2007 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/Oct 9th 2007 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/Oct 9th 2007 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/Oct 9th 2007 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/Oct 9th 2007 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/Oct 9th 2007 5:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/Oct 9th 2007 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/Oct 9th 2007 5:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/Oct 9th 2007 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/Oct 9th 2007 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/
Most of the people who end up having serious or fatal injuries have a pre-existing, serious heart condition to begin with.

tazers > you]]>Oct 9th 2007 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/
Then, once they do taze you and you're dead, you can charge them with .. oh wait.]]>Oct 9th 2007 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/Oct 9th 2007 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/
Maybe the solution is to not run from the cops. Honestly if you've done nothing wrong then you have nothing to fear.]]>Oct 9th 2007 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/
O Rly?

How about shooting a guy whos just carrying a table leg?

http://web.amnesty.org/wire/september2002/UK]]>Oct 9th 2007 7:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/
This is great news.]]>Oct 9th 2007 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/
"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."

]]>Oct 9th 2007 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/
One way or another, this guy was going down.

Rather they had to tackle him, or use other means of intense physical force, they disabled him.]]>Oct 9th 2007 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/It just confirms what most people already know.
]]>Oct 9th 2007 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/
Treat the cause, not the symptom. ]]>Oct 9th 2007 12:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/
So if I run up and Taser you for no good reason, should I not be charged, since there's no permanent injuries?]]>Oct 9th 2007 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/
Oh, wait . . .]]>Oct 9th 2007 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/
They say... Take your pick! Either you will be shot, or you can get taser, it's your choice! We throw are arm up in the air and say... taser me please! It's better than being shot! However what did you do wrong to warrant that taser/being shot in the first place? If a person say NO to a police office, that dose not mean that the police office has the right to use force against your simple 2 letter word. However here in America that is so normal we don't even notice anything being wrong.

If the police are the Prison guards then what the heck does that make the rest of the population? And we come to the conclusion that Brian comment should get I guess prisners in a prison would give Brian Highest ranks as well?

For all of you guys out their that think that other people are sooo bad that they need to be shot, locked up, or taser... Then this link is for you AMERICA!
http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=4185

America... the land of the free and the home of the br***
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Amen]]>Oct 9th 2007 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/]]>Oct 9th 2007 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/Oct 9th 2007 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/]]>Oct 9th 2007 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/
Dude: DON'T TAZE ME BRO!

Officer: After that how can I not? "TAZEEEEEE"

Dude: Damn that's refreshing... Do it again?...]]>Oct 9th 2007 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/
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And what are the mental consequences? Think about it.]]>Oct 9th 2007 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/Oct 9th 2007 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/
Tazers should be banned because they give the false sense of "the safe alternative".

So its my fault I had some heart issue I didn't know about that without contact with a tazer might have limited me to 65 years of life, but due to the tazer I am dead right now.

With a traditional gun, its clear what that will do.

Someone needs to come up with something small you can wear that will absorb the charge and make the tazer ineffective.]]>Oct 9th 2007 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/
"Who paid for the study?"

Straight from the article: "Dr. William Bozeman and colleagues have just wrapped up an independent study"

"Tazers should be banned because they give the false sense of "the safe alternative"."
1. What about tazers is false? The study speaks for itself.
2. Is there any other "safe alternative" that has shown itself to be as effective and proven to be safe as the tazer?

"So its my fault I had some heart issue I didn't know about that without contact with a tazer might have limited me to 65 years of life, but due to the tazer I am dead right now."

It is completely your fault if you provoke and resist and officer enough to the point where he has to use a tazer. If you would just cooperate with them, there would be no need to use it.

"With a traditional gun, its clear what that will do."

What the hell does that mean?

"Someone needs to come up with something small you can wear that will absorb the charge and make the tazer ineffective."

Nice. Let's invent something that'll help criminals resist officers even further, necessitating the invention of a less-safe alternative to disable criminals.]]>Oct 9th 2007 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/Oct 9th 2007 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/
USA: TASER-Related Deaths Increasingly Frequent; Total Exceeds 150, Reports Amnesty International
http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?lang=e&id=ENGUSA20060328001

Then I wonder... so how could this be??? After rereading the article again I notice this. "In a review of nearly 1,000 cases, 99.7 per cent of those subjected to a Taser had mild injuries, such as scrapes and bruises, or none at all."

Oh! So that is how Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center makes it seem like that taser are safe. Time to send Bonnie Davis a few emails!


Also, I wonder if 1 of those 2 people that died were from the link below?

Police fatally taser gasoline-soaked suspect
http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/police-fatally-taser-gasoline-soaked-suspect/
]]>Oct 9th 2007 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/Oct 9th 2007 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/Oct 9th 2007 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/]]>Oct 9th 2007 11:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/Oct 9th 2007 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/When a fascistic police state (such as - oh let's see - are there any around today?) has to use any form of brutal force and it is approved by any "independent body" then watch th use of force increase.

Tasers are safe and so are atomic bombs - until you set them off. Not a single death can be attributed to a taser sitting on a table and a person accidentally or intentionally bumping into this device, HOWEVER put the taer into the hand of these morons called Polizei or Gestapo or your local University pseudo-polizei and you can actually see someone die. Why, you may ask. Becasue these sorry sick SOBs do not know when ot stop and in fact they usually get off on the pain they inflict and look forward to inflicting more.

Here in Australia (qucikly becoming a police state under Little Johnny)... we are seeing more and more use of the taser to stop drunks on the street. Oh, that's really necessary!

When you give authoritarians the "right" the inflict pain you create a torture culture. Enjoy!]]>Oct 9th 2007 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/

Well, gee. I don't see any jack-booted thugs breaking down your door and dragging your sorry ass out of your home or blocking your internet access. Of course, next time you and your hairy girlfriend are walking through a dark parking lot and a bunch of thugs surround you, don't bother calling 911 on your Iphone. You wouldn't want the police to use "ANY FORM" of force on those guys.


Why don't you move to Iran or China and see what a real police state can do.

Nimrod. ]]>Oct 9th 2007 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/largest-ever-study-finds-tasers-safe/
Why is it that people are accustomed to police possesing LETHAL FORCE but not happy to hear of them possesing LESS-THAN-LETHAL foce?

That attitude only shows how poorly America recognizes human rights - and more importantly HUMAN LIFE.

I'd rather seee a debate over gun control and taser control than ABORTION because we should focus on how to treatr life that already lives and breathes.

Yes, I would worry about TASERS being abused by RACIST, angry and hateful police officers that are out there. Perhaps the devices should be tuned carefully to prevent abuse by police?

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If everything you do is recorded, I'd say there's pretty good potential for oversight and minimizing of abuse.]]>Oct 9th 2007 12:42PM