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garybeck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 10:44 AM Original message |
Fuck all this taser nonsense! |
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rawtribe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 10:48 AM Response to Original message |
1. Tasers a form of torture, says UN |
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garybeck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 10:49 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. I can understand the need for a non-lethal weapon, for law inforcement, but |
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havocmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 11:45 AM Response to Reply #1 |
16. Where do we find lawyers with the courage to start filing suits charging war crimes? |
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Joanne98 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 10:56 AM Response to Original message |
3. The police got their noses into everything we do now! |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 10:58 AM Response to Original message |
4. Would you prefer that police go back to truncheons, batons, and guns for compliance? |
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garybeck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 11:02 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. how about they just fix the fucking things. |
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sam sarrha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 11:24 AM Response to Reply #4 |
10. there are better devices on the market.. |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 11:32 AM Response to Reply #4 |
13. Maybe go back to the truncheons and batons |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 11:43 AM Response to Reply #4 |
15. Yeah, the old false choice argument rearing it's moronic head |
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lynnertic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-26-07 07:32 AM Response to Reply #15 |
28. good post. |
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file83 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 01:33 PM Response to Reply #4 |
24. Yes, because at least with those weapons people KNOW they can be lethal. |
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lynnertic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-26-07 07:31 AM Response to Reply #4 |
27. How about if the police stop behaving like fascists |
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kurth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 11:05 AM Response to Original message |
6. 290+ dead and counting |
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aikoaiko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 11:07 AM Response to Original message |
7. I say Fuck anti-taser hysteria. |
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conspirator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 11:30 AM Response to Reply #7 |
11. Show me the facts or scientific detailed research data that a taser does not have |
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aikoaiko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 11:45 AM Response to Reply #11 |
17. Fair enough. Until one side can show the other they are wrong we can just be mutually smug. |
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flashl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 11:30 AM Response to Reply #7 |
12. Is Taser Intl product protection lawsuit hysterical? |
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aikoaiko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 11:42 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Do you have any references or links to the real studies? |
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Gormy Cuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 12:10 PM Response to Reply #14 |
21. There aren't any large scale, non-partisan studies. |
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flashl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 12:27 PM Response to Reply #14 |
23. Journal of the National Academy of Forensic Engineers JAN 2006 |
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aikoaiko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 01:52 PM Response to Reply #23 |
26. Results like that should be easy enough to replicate and, if they are, hold Taser accountable |
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sam sarrha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 11:19 AM Response to Original message |
8. and the schizophrenic wheel chair bound woman, police killed with two tasers, tased for 2 minutes |
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kurth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 11:24 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. And don't forget how the Smith brothers raked in $92 million in just 3 months because of Kerik: |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 11:50 AM Response to Original message |
18. A death four days after a taser was used |
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JBoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 12:17 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. Yes, in this incident I'm not sure the taser caused his death |
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pdxmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 11:53 AM Response to Original message |
19. We pull food products off the shelves because 10 people don't cook |
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ladjf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 12:00 PM Response to Original message |
20. Tasers are just another sign that shows that the U.S. has |
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lynnertic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-26-07 07:34 AM Response to Reply #20 |
29. a civilian's dog would be put to sleep |
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windoe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 01:34 PM Response to Original message |
25. The myth of the arms race |
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