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been used over 100 000 times voluntarily in police training throughout the world without fatality.

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While this is somewhat relevant to prove general safety of the product, how many of those policemen had their arms clasped behind them, 4 guys on top of them, and 200lb being supported on their neck? Police are trained on taser use with medical staff five feet away, wearing loose clothing on karate-style gym mats with ample food/water/adrenaline doses/whatever nearby.

Give me 100,000 police in distress, surrounded by half a dozen armed men, in an airport, fiending for a smoke and terrified about the safety of their elderly mother, then taser them. We'll see how many fatality's we'll get then.

All this taser talk is sort of silly - the weapon itself is obviously less dangerous than a gun, and as such would be a good replacement for those kind of high-risk situations that police procedure ALREADY dictates. These men were NOT following standard procedure, and their incompetence mixed with the airport's apathy has resulted in a tragic incident - it's not their tool's fault.