Bill allows lethal force on Taser users (Arizona Daily Sun)

[struggle4progress]

By HOWARD FISCHER
Capitol Media Services
01/27/2005

PHOENIX -- House Speaker Jim Weiers is pushing to give police officers clear authority to kill someone who aims a Taser stun gun at them -- and, by extension, grant that same right to everyone else.

The legislation, unveiled Wednesday, would make it a crime to threaten a peace officer with a "remote stun gun." That is defined as a device that shoots out electrodes that administer a shock that could disable someone, and which leaves behind some coded pieces of paper to trace the weapon.

That definition meets the specifications of the device manufactured by Scottsdale-based Taser Corp.

It's also the definition of what would be legal to sell in Arizona -- a definition that would lock Taser's main competitor out of the market here. <snip>

http://www.azdailysun.com/non_sec/nav_includes/story.cf...


'Shoot-to-kill' policy for police threatened with Tasers?

Robert Anglen
The Arizona Republic
Jan. 26, 2005 07:56 PM

Police should have the right to shoot and kill any suspect who threatens them with a stun gun, state lawmakers said Wednesday when they took a step toward legislating the weapon in Arizona.

The proposed law would also require stun gun manufacturers to keep and maintain a registry of stun gun buyers who must provide a government-issued identification and an address before taking possession of the weapon.

House Speaker Jim Weiers, R-Phoenix, who introduced the legislation, said it seeks to head off abuse of a weapon that has been unregulated and is becoming more and more accessible to the public. <snip>

Attorney General Terry Goddard said in a statement Wednesday that he supports the legislation because it makes clear that while stun guns are "non-lethal" weapons, they can be deadly in the wrong hands.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0126taser-ON2.ht...


Proposal would allow use of lethal force on suspects with stun guns

Associated Press
Jan. 26, 2005 06:10 PM

<snip> Arizona law already allows officers to use lethal force when suspects threaten with them with objects such as rocks. But the law doesn't specifically prohibit a suspect from coming at an officer with a stun gun, said Andy Swann, president of the Arizona Police Association, which represents 6,700 officers. <snip>

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0126az-stunguns2...

[oneighty]

1. Where is the NRA on this

The right to keep and bear arms and all that there stuff. First they came for my stun gun etc etc etc.

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[thecai]

2. So Tasers ARE A Deadly Threat

So what can citizen's do if a police aims one at us? We USED to have the right to protect ourselves from abusive LE.