Taser being marketed to the general public???????

[cornermouse]

Who is the donkey's hindend who dreamed up this nightmare?

[cdsilv]

1. ...have been for years....

...bought my daughter one a few years ago.

[liberalnurse]

7. How does she like it?

It has it's disadvantages but overall I love mine.

[LeftyMom]

2. Yeah, I saw one for sale a few months ago

and anybody could buy one, I asked. I don't want to say where though as I don't care to encourage that sort of thing. It was an aboveboard shop, not some guy in a trenchcoat selling them along with his rofexes.

[SmokingJacket]

3. I'd rather carry one for self-protection than a gun, certainly.

If I lived in an area with a lot of crime and didn't feel safe going about my daily business -- if I was a woman living alone -- I might be tempted to carry something for protection. But I hate guns and have no interest in killing anyone.

It was rumored a waitress I worked with fifteen years ago had a taser -- maybe they were called something else then?

[cornermouse]

4. I don't know.

They said that taser makers are getting ready to launch a big push for sales to the general public and I'm calculating the possibility of getting zapped by a mugger or car thief while going out to my car after work.

[SmokingJacket]

5. Yes, that would totally suck.

However, it would beat being shot. I do think tasers should be treated exactly like guns in every respect: licensed, etc. And I think police should be trained to use them only when they would otherwise use a gun.

Police have been using them in situations when before, they'd have used other non-lethal tactics, and as it happens tasers are sometimes lethal.

I approve of tasers only when they replace guns.

[cornermouse]

6. Shot or tasered.

:shrug: I would consider that one a toss-up.