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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 12:31 PM
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Tasers: the next generation (torture to last longer)

http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/Technology/article/281670


Alarmed by recent incidents? Wait'll you see what the company is planning for 2008


The Taser is going wireless.

Until now, the electric-shock gun consisted of two barbed darts attached to wires that shoot out and strike the victim, immobilizing the person with 50,000 volts of electricity, causing severe pain and intense muscle contraction.


But the wires could only extend a few metres. With the new "extended range electronic projectile," or XREP, the Taser has been turned into a kind of self-contained shotgun shell and can be fired, wire-free, from a standard shotgun, which police typically have in their arsenal already.

The first electrode hooks on to the target, the second electrode falls and makes contact elsewhere on the body, completing the circuit and activating the shock. It can blast someone as far as 30 metres away, and, unlike the current stun guns, whose shock lasts five seconds, the XREP lasts 20 seconds, enough time to "take the offender into custody without risking injury to officers."
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won't the cops have fun with this one

TASERS ARE TORTURE - TASERS SHOULD BE OUTLAWED - civilized people don't torture
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 12:36 PM
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1. Steve Tuttle lies just like George Bush.
Th XREP will be used for "riot" "control" and against peaceful protesters by the blue cowards.
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winter999 Donating Member (530 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 01:03 PM
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2. Are you advocating "deadly force" or
"let the criminal go" as an alternative to a Taser? Since pepper spray is EXTREMELY painful, is that torture, too? Where can one draw the line? Gee, when I was a kid, torture as the taking off of finger, toes, and teeth (Marathon Man anyone?).

Not attacking. Looking for enlightenment.
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 01:18 PM
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3. Civlized people don't torture, but Amerikans do.
And sadly what is most likely is that we have not seen anything yet.

We are not anywhere close to the kind of Nazi-like evil which COULD, if the Bushies chose to and chose to False Flag us again just to get things started, be perpetrated by the 25% and accepted by 74%.

I pray we do not find out, but I have yet to see the trend slow even slighty, let alone abate or turn around.
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 01:20 PM
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4. First it was 5 seconds, now it's 20 seconds.
See, once the door is opened a little, a lot of shit happens.
I see that they are primarily concerned with officer safety. Well, you accept certain risks while on the job. :nopity:
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winter999 Donating Member (530 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 01:21 PM
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5. And you also accept certain risks when you do the crime.
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 01:29 PM
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7. And many people are wrongfully accused of doing crimes too.
Edited on Tue Dec-04-07 01:31 PM by AX10
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Beerboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 01:24 PM
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6. Wow, cool.
I hope they're made in China! :bounce:
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-05-07 07:56 PM
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8. They will be used against peaceful protesters.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-05-07 07:57 PM
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9. and leads that shoot further than 35 feet.
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