Reply #3: Oh well, that's all better then

[gratuitous]

In the heat of the moment, when an officer is struggling to gain control of a situation and pulls out his stun gun, I'm sure he'll recalibrate everything and make sure that he's pointing at his victim's arm or leg or some other body part, not the chest. And none of our fine constabulary will now think that a chest shot is just the thing to pacify this very troublesome person in front of them.

Can we just declare that there's a war going on, so that ordinary citizens can have at least the paper protection of the Geneva Conventions?