Originally Posted By: redhook
Marsha, i never said that tasers were harmless.. they are "less than lethal" as are rubber bullets and bean bags... but we all know that many people each year are killed by both of them as well as tasers...


There have actually been very few causes of tasers causing a death. In each case that I am aware of, the person had a heart attack that was as much related to the stress of the event as opposed to the electrical current.

The electricity in these tasers is for the most part harmless. They run at 50k volts, but amps are the bad kind of electricity. These taser are very, very, very low in amps.

Many alarmist try to pin "taser related deaths" such as someone falling and hitting their head on the pavement on the evil taser device, which just isn't accurate.
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