I see the message boards are lighting up over the pregnant woman tased in Ohio, and several responses mention how deadly the taser is, so I thought I'd post some facts.
Voltage does not kill, amperage kills. The taser works on .0021 amps, 30 times less than the minimum lethal amount of .07 amps.
Electricity is not stored in the body, so if the taser was the cause of death, they would die while they were being tased, not hours later. All the deaths I have read about were from pre-existing medical conditions, most commonly a drug overdose that was lethal in itself.
Tasers effects muscle control only. Not the brain, not the heart, not organs. Muscle control is not life threatening.
Now I am not going to get into justification, that is another issue that needs to be considered on a case by case basis and can not be addressed by itself. I just want to know about deaths.
If you have a link to a news article that says otherwise, please post it here.
2007-11-29
05:28:16
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