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[DoNotRefill]

please quote where it say it provides "instant incapacitation" or anything close to that. It doesn't. It gives an electric shock. To effect incapacitation, a continuous 4 second burst must be applied on average. You'll notice that it states that it automatically gives a 7 second shock followed by intermittent shocks. Why would it do that if it provided "instant incapacitation"? Is it that the designers wanted to just keep giving them juice, or because that's what it takes to put a person down? Remember Rodney King? He was on the ground, being hit by multiple air tasers simultaneously, while being brutally clubbed by cops, and he was STILL moving around. I've been hit with both the old style Taser (classified as a firearm) and the new style "air taser", along with the contact type of "stun gun", all of them LE-quality. I have actual real-world experience with these, and you don't. Why should ANYBODY listen to you and take your word over mine on this given that blatantly obvious fact?

"Maybe the role of judge, jury, and potential executioner does not belong in the hands of people."

It isn't currently in the hands of the people. What's currently in the hands of the people is the right to STOP an attacker, NOT the right to punish the attacker. There's a HUGE difference.

Oh, BTW, I'm perfectly calm. What makes you think I'm not?