Taser International's newest weapons for the public will come in leopard print and fit in a holster with an embedded MP3 player ...I am not adverse to ordinary citizens owning Tasers.
However, since there is this absurd notion, despite examples to the contrary, that tasering someone is no more than a big joke [all the more so because it hurts a lot and usually doesn't kill] it's possible that the public will use Tasers with much more frequency than they use firearms. After all, the police have provided such a fine example [after example, after example] of how the Taser can be used just to shut someone up because they are annoying you.
Most people know firearms are a serious business. But Tasers? They appear to have become a joke! How long they will remain so if quarreling boyfriends, girlfriends, brothers, sisters and the like start getting frequently zapped remains to be seen.
Ethics ... an affair of caprice?
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