| Okay, I admit it. I watch CSI. I even watch | | | | incorporating EMD technology with the more |
| CSI reruns on Spike - yeah, I'm one of those | | | | traditional stun gun technology, the Taser |
| pesky females that the programmers at Spike | | | | has a proven higher instant incapacitation |
| just don't understand. Ah, well, I | | | | rate than a 9mm gun.The addition of Tasers to |
| digress...sort of.A while back I was watching | | | | the police officer's tool belt is more than |
| my beloved show, yes a rerun, and one scene | | | | great, because now police in cities like |
| really grabbed my attention. Two bad guys | | | | Austin, Madison, and Columbus now have a |
| were using stun guns. Probably not a new | | | | choice. An officer doesn't have to risk |
| thing, but you know how it goes - once you | | | | taking a life every time he answers a call. |
| buy a red car it seems that everyone has a | | | | An option that police officers everywhere are |
| red car. Well, this is the case here. I own a | | | | grateful for, I'm sure.An option that you |
| stun gun, a really cool little stun gun - a | | | | need to consider as well.Yes, consider a |
| Stun Master - so now I'm noticing how many | | | | Taser for your own protection in your home. |
| other people have stun guns.And now I've | | | | Wouldn't it be better to pull out your Taser |
| noticed something else...the police are using | | | | late at night, in the dark, when you hear the |
| them. Tasers, actually. Good for them.Good | | | | window downstairs open and close...especially |
| for them? Yeah, good for them. And good for | | | | if you fired at the dark figure who was |
| the public. Just think about it. Some guy | | | | skulking away from that window...and the |
| who's down on his luck goes out and gets | | | | skulker turned out to be your teenage son |
| wired on some meth or something then he | | | | just sneaking in? What if you had shot your |
| decides to do something really smart, | | | | son instead?The reason I have a stun gun is |
| something that will solve all of his problems | | | | because I have a young child. And children |
| - permanently. He goes and robs a convenience | | | | are curious especially about their parents. |
| store (you know and ice house). And just as | | | | My daughter loves to through my stuff. If I |
| Smart Guy is going to make his getaway, the | | | | had a gun it wouldn't do me much good because |
| police pull up. It is a story we hear about | | | | it would be in a lock box - unloaded. I would |
| all the time and the ending is almost always | | | | have the bullets some where else. But my stun |
| the same - the down on his luck meth freak | | | | gun is right there in plain sight. I don't |
| Mr. Smart Guy dies. But now that the police | | | | keep the battery in it when she's up and |
| are armed with TAsers maybe this ending can | | | | running, but that isn't a problem. For some |
| be rewritten.Don't get me wrong, I'm not | | | | reason she's not drawn to it, the way she and |
| anti-gun. We have a constitutional right to | | | | her cousins are drawn to the antique rifle in |
| them and I support it 100%, but if somebody | | | | my father's closet. There's just something |
| doesn't have to die or be maimed for life I'm | | | | about guns...There definitely is something |
| all for that too.The wonderment of Tasers has | | | | about guns...they're definitely the weapon of |
| been proven in studies* across the nation and | | | | choice for most criminals, but just like on |
| in Canada as well. In each one of these | | | | CSI the bad guys are even beginning to |
| studies, from Seatle to Orange County, | | | | recognize the appeal of stun guns.And you |
| Florida, the use of Tasers reduced the amount | | | | should too.Amy Herndon is an authority on |
| of injuries (to suspects and police), | | | | self defense. She has two web sites that have |
| fatalities, and general mayhem.So what is it | | | | more information, as well as, tools you can |
| that makes Tasers so special? Well, they are | | | | use to protect yourself. and you'd like to |
| a stun gun and more. Tasers use a relatively | | | | read about these studies, the League of |
| new technology called Electro-Muscular | | | | Minnesota Cities Insurance Trust did a fine |
| Disruption that over-rides the central | | | | job of incorporating many of them into one |
| nervous system, so even if your target wants | | | | easy to read report. They are listed as |
| to fight back they physically can't. By | | | | lmnc.org. |