Originally posted by: Chiropteran
Originally posted by: bignateyk
An 82 year old dude with heart and breathing problems lived through getting tazed 3 times? I think that ends the debate about lethality.
Please. I'm sure given enough time anyone could dig up an article about a senior citizen surviving a gunshot wound, it doesn't prove guns aren't lethal.
Umm, that's VERY different. The lethality of guns varies greatly depending on where you get shot. The taser has a systemic effect, where pretty much your whole body tenses up. IF this effect is enough to cause organ failure in more than a few freak accidents (as anti-taser people claim), then it should be much more lethal on people whose systems are already weakened, particularly if they get hit multiple times (which will stress out their system even more).
I'm not saying that tasers are 100% safe or making any claims about whether they are overused, but clearly they're not "ban-me-now" dangerous.