Reply #23: That leads me to believe it's even more so then

[MajorChode]

A millisecond is a millionth of a second. I have no idea how many milliseconds you're talking about, but I'm guessing it's more than 2. A normal heart rate is between 60 and 100, so let's say you go on the low side which is 60 (which is extremely conservative considering someone in a confrontation is almost certainly going to have an elevated heart rate), that's 1 beat per second. That gives a risk factor of about 1/333,333. Any more than 3 milliseconds or using a realistic average for heart rate is going to drive that risk factor up considerably. That's already a much higher risk than any reasonable associative risk with tasers.

I'm not saying you do, but some on DU can't seem to understand that there's also risks with NOT using a taser. Only when you evaluate one against the other can you reasonably say whether they should not be used, and I haven't seen anyone here even try to make that argument. Certainly it's reasonable and prudent to try and figure out a safer way to use them, even if the risk associated with them is infinitesimal.