How Taser inserts itself into investigations involving its own weapons

Re:How Taser inserts itself into investigations involving it... by losteric on Thursday September 07, 2017 @05:32PM (#15195942)

Obviously. However, training alone is insufficient - training is the way to trust cops with real guns, but tasers and guns still fill different roles. Tasers are non-lethal ranged weapons, complementing non-lethal close-range (batons/pepper spray) and lethal ranged weapons (guns).

To me, this incident highlights a design flaw in tasers - too strong and too inflexible. Years of evidence already highlighted the training failures in some regions.

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Re:How Taser inserts itself into investigations involving it... by dragonwriter on Thursday September 07, 2017 @05:46PM (#15196047)

> Tasers are non-lethal ranged weapons, complementing non-lethal close-range (batons/pepper spray) and lethal ranged weapons (guns).

All the examples in that sentence of “non-lethal” weapons are, really, merely less-lethal (than firearms); non-lethal is a factually-inaccurate label used for misleading propaganda purposes.

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