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