You hear that Elizabeth!...I'm coming to join you!...with two wires in my chest!

Tasers are an intermediate weapon and they can cause serious injury or death. So can a baton. Or Mace. Get over it doctor. Nothing is perfect and it's not a catch all but it gives a cop an option for an intermediate use of force.

Now why do I think this will be used in a law suit against Taser?

Tasers can be tied to cardiac arrest and death, new study finds | The Republic

CINCINNATI — Tasers are touted by law enforcement as a non-lethal way to control unruly subjects, but a new study finds the use of Tasers can be tied to cardiac arrest and death.

A study published this week in the journal Circulation represents the first peer-reviewed evidence that Tasers can bear a lethal risk.

Dr. Douglas Zipes, an electrophysiologist at Indiana University, wrote that a review of "animal and clinical data" showed that Taser strikes to the chest can "cause cardiac electrical capture," which can trigger a heart attack.

Sounds good to me. Of course the usual suspects have problems with it.

But since 2001, more than 500 people have died following Taser stuns, according to Amnesty International, which said in February that stricter guidelines for its use were "imperative."

OK. That's not exactly an objective source of information. But good to know it's balanced.

In only a few dozen of those cases have medical examiners ruled the Taser contributed to the death.

In other words the medical doctors who examine the bodies say it wasn't the Taser that killed the turd but something else. Then the question is obvious, why even mention their propaganda?

TASER International, which manufactures the device, did not immediately comment on the particulars of the Circulation article...

Not surprised there. My agency first got Tasers in 2006. After two years a survey looked at the use of them (averaging a little over one time a day) and in over 100 instances where the Taser was used deadly force was justified. I'll translate that. The cops could have shot the idiot. Now I ask what would Dr Zipes and Amnesty Inc would rather have, would they rather shoot them with a .40 cal or two electrified darts?