anthrosub
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I've read most of the posts in this thread. I have a question for the OP. Have you ever had your life threatened with a weapon? Up close and personal? If you have, please share the experience so those of us who also have had that experience can contrast and compare.
Yes I have been threatened with a weapon, a sawn off shot gun in a bar no less. No point sharing details with you though since neither of us have anyway of verifying the others claims. Most of the Right on here lay claim to having been cops, bounty hunters, navy seals and rambo, odd how that goes huh.
Still, at least you didnt use the usual bullshit I get on here which is always a version of "Whats it to you, you are not an American"
My question is valid if you look at this from Wiki, not a great source but still valid. Read the bolded part.
Tasers were introduced as non-lethal weapons to be used by police to subdue fleeing, belligerent, or potentially dangerous people, who would have otherwise been subjected to more lethal weapons such as a firearm.
Thanks for replying to my question and for turning out to be sane! It's rare to read a reply on a heated topic and have some temperment. I was also threatened once...with a double-edged short sword long enough to pass right through my chest and come out my back. I was working at a hotel in Montana (graveyard shift) and was robbed. This happened 3 weeks after Gary Gilmore made the national news. They were a couple of guys in their twenties from the Crow nation. They had me against a wall with the sword pressed into my chest. I can tell you I never felt more alive than I did during that robbery.
They got $200 (and 15 years with no parole in prison for armed robbery since this was a repeat offense).
I think even if the taser is effective it would have required some lucky circumstances with the incident in question. The cops would have had to sneak up on the guy and hit him before he had time to react. As it was, it looks like they said something to him and he turned, immediately pulled the gun and pointed it at them. In hindsight it appears he wanted or expected to die.
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