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ld-protective-services
From: bob@somewhere
"Jurassic Pierogi" wrote in message
news:1116629842.009604.223730@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
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> Greegor wrote:
>> Kane wrote
>> "There are not a bunch of controlling,
>> power-happy, bully cops and school
>> adminstrators anxious to put new
>> technology to use."
>>
>>
>> Would you CARE to take a survey of
>> the Citizens of the US on this?
>> Immediately after reading the
>> article about the highly trained
>> cop using a taser on a kid while
>> she was CUFFED and in the back seat CAGE??
>>
>> Let there be NO DOUBT that you are
>> actually a moron, Kane!
>>
>> Kane further wrote (personal insults)
>> "That's all about YOU, bobber,
>> not them. You are the child hater."
>>
>> Bobb did NOT Taser a kid who was CUFFED
>> and in the back seat CAGE of a cop car!
>> He also didn't pretend to be an expert
>> on how and when to USE A TASER/TAZER!
>>
>> Come on Dan! Rush to defend Kane's puke!
>>
>> Or react like every other REAL PERSON
>> reading the TAZER article and speak
>> against what OUR SYSTEM calls ""expertise""!
>>
>> And in a survey I suspect a goodly
>> percentage would like to be handed a
>> TAZER and left alone in a room with that
>> cop for 15 minutes.
>
> That's why I objected to tazers being handed out willy nilly. Sure,
> tazers are a good thing when used as an alternative to lethal force -
> but there's just too many gomers with badges to trust them all with a
> weapon like the tazer.
I'm not so sure I can even agree tasers are a good thing for law
enforcement. Years ago the black jack was introduced and quickly banned.
The same was said about the night stick but it prevailed... with limiations
on it's use.
Do police really need guns? For years the English Bobbies didn't carry guns.
The idea was that criminals wouldn't need to protect themselves from the
police.
It wasn't so long ago that burglary (without a gun) was a crime punishable
by a rather insignificant jail term. Robbery (the use of a gun) was
considered much more serious with a more lengthy jail term. Burglars did
not carry guns for fear of the added jail time.
Our legislators, in all of their infinite wisdom, increased the jail term of
burglary to that of robbery. The burglar, recognizing that the penality was
the same, began carrying guns. The offered the possible of escape and, of
course, if discovered...there was little reason to run... he had the upper
hand. Burglaries actually increased. Of course, this brought on the notion
that no one should own or possess a gun. The 'legal' burglar thought this
was just great. Now he would have free rein to terrorize entire families
and the term 'home invasion' was born.
I'm not sure our legislators really understand the historics but there is a
sense today that appeals to the right to carry in many states.
What we also need to understand is that the unfair jail sentences also need
to be looked at and revised.
I say ufair because just as burglary escalated so have other crimes
legislators have fought to control though inappropriate punishments.
I can't help but wonder how come so many children are being abducted and
murdered... if not, perhaps, because of the extreme sentences imposed on
simple molestation. I refer back as far as John Wayne Gacy... it's been
long recognized the only reason he killed those boys was to avoid a life
sentence. An out-come that is not lost on the earlier rapists who used to
let their victim go after the fact.
I certainly digress a bit but the point is, and was, we sometimes dont
recognize the consequences of what we do. Tasers should be out-lawed or
allowed within very limited circumstance. Very limited.
bobb
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