Reply #6: They still have the sidearms.. [View All]

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How old is your taser? I wonder if they have gotten more powerful in recent years. I've already read that the ones that cops carry are different than ones for civilian use.

On edit: Maybe an alternative is cattle prods (sarcasm)..to the extent tasers are being used to ensure compliance with instructions rather than defense, maybe there's a tendency to misuse and overuse them..to think of them as cattle prods. Sidearms wouldn't be used for a teen refusing to be detained for skipping school or a man who won't give a urine sample -- they'd be used for someone who had committed an act of violence, theoretically?