The promotion probably characterized it as non-lethal. Many news stories showed cops who would use them being tased to show that while someone fell down, they got up after a few moments. Lost in the whole story is that fact that a large percentage of the elderly population (and for all I know some younger people), wear pacemakers because of the dangers of fibrillation. But they got there because their hearts incrementally became damaged.

Autopsies on young soldiers during Vietnam showed that cardiac damage is more gradual than sudden, and there is already damage in the twenties in many, many men (and probably women too).

The people choosing to use Taser are not physiologists, they are not rocket scientists. But Taser is a company which does something to the body the way a drug would. I am sure they would hate to be regulated like a drug company, but consider that they are paralyzing the body the way some anaethetic procedures are done only in hospitals, by licensed physicians.

The device is inherently dangerous, and it has killed when the intention of law enforcement was only to take control of the victim/arrestee.

If we don’t stop them, they will just chalk it up to bad luck when someone dies. You know how police using deadly force of bullets can be acquitted. This is more casual, but sometimes as deadly.

It would be a good thing to have some very big lawsuits. Of course those who profit from these devices and others like them that they do not want to have regulated, will scream bloody murder and swear that we need court reform.

But I think I can harden my heart to the cries of a torturer. Time to take their little house apart.