<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Police have been given the go-ahead to use Taser stun guns against children. </p>The relaxing of restrictions on the use of the weapons comes despite warnings that they could trigger a heart attack in youngsters. </p>Until now, Tasers - which emit a 50,000-volt electric shock - have been used only by specialist officers as a "non lethal" alternative to firearms. However, they can now be used against all potentially violent offenders even if they are unarmed.It is the decision not to ban their use against minors that is likely to raise serious concerns. </p> Home Office Police Minister Tony McNulty said medical assessments had confirmed the risk of death or serious injury from Tasers was "low". </p> But he failed to mention Government advisers had also warned of a potential risk to children. </p> The Defence Scientific Advisory Council medical committee told the Home Office that not enough was known about the health risks of using the weapons against children. </p> </p> Tasers work by firing metal barbs into the skin which then discharge an electrical charge which is designed to disable someone long enough to allow police to detain them safely.</p> The committee, which is made up of independent scientists and doctors, said that limited research suggested there was a risk children could suffer "a serious cardiac event".</p> It recommended that officers should be "particularly vigilant" for any Taser-induced adverse response and said guidance should be amended to "identify children and adults of small stature" as being at potentially greater risk from the cardiac effects of Tasers. </p> The Government scientists were also asked to test whether the weapons could cause a miscarriage if used on a pregnant woman. </p> While not saying whether police would be allowed to Taser an expectant mother, the Home Office said the DSAC committee had "specifically asked" for computer simulations to be carried out to analyse the effect on "a pregnant female". </p> Amnesty International claims Tasers have been responsible for 220 deaths in America since 2001. Many cities and police forces there have banned their use against minors. </p> Two years ago in Chicago a 14-year-old boy went into cardiac arrest after being shot with one. Medics had to use a defibrillator four times to resuscitate him. </p> Taser International, the American firm that makes the device, said tests on pigs suggested the weapons were safe. </p> The Association of Chief Police Officers, which issues guidance to forces on the use of weapons, said Tasers would be made "readily available" for "conflict management" at incidents of "violence and threats of violence of such severity that they will need force". </p> Non-firearms officers in ten forces will be trained to use the weapons. Every incident they are involved in will be assessed over a 12-month trial period.</div> </p> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...in_page_id=1770</p> Cops in the UK just gave out a collective, "Woohoo!"</p> -Petey</p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Shookem)</div><div class='quotemain'>I've been using tasers on children for years and only a handful have ever died.</div></p> Lol remind me never to invite you around lol. </p> I think its a good idea but depends how trigger happy they'll get. If a Child has an offensive weapon fair enough. I live in England and i'm 16 and my friend got hit with a police Baton like the picture, the thing is he got hit in the back of the legs with it because he wouldn't hand over 5 cans of Stella lol (Stella= a type of beer)</p> </p>
Meh, whats the problem. Obviously you have to use judgement, using it on a kid thats like 13 or under probably isn't a good idea. But 14 and over seems fair, high school age. If I was in a fight at school as a freshman (14), I would have gotten tasered. I don't see what the big deal is, they do it here all the time. </p> The kids aren't dying because of their age, but because they have heart problems. Are the adults that died for this, dying because they're kids, and not because that they have a heart problem as well? Some people just can't take a charge of 50,000 volts without going into cardiac arrest, regardless of age, while the majority can take that shock.</p>
there are always gonna be the dirty cops who abuse their power and harrass kids with these things when they haven't done much of anything wrong.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'> tests on pigs suggested the weapons were safe. </p> </div></p> Poor pigs! You know they had to have gotten shocked more than once.</p> </p> </p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BG7 Lavigne)</div><div class='quotemain'> Meh, whats the problem. Obviously you have to use judgement, using it on a kid thats like 13 or under probably isn't a good idea. But 14 and over seems fair, high school age. If I was in a fight at school as a freshman (14), I would have gotten tasered. I don't see what the big deal is, they do it here all the time. </p> The kids aren't dying because of their age, but because they have heart problems. Are the adults that died for this, dying because they're kids, and not because that they have a heart problem as well? Some people just can't take a charge of 50,000 volts without going into cardiac arrest, regardless of age, while the majority can take that shock. </p> </div></p> 13 and older is fine. But kids that are like 7-8, that would be just wrong.</p> </p> </p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Arrpy)</div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BG7 Lavigne)</div><div class='quotemain'> Meh, whats the problem. Obviously you have to use judgement, using it on a kid thats like 13 or under probably isn't a good idea. But 14 and over seems fair, high school age. If I was in a fight at school as a freshman (14), I would have gotten tasered. I don't see what the big deal is, they do it here all the time. </p> The kids aren't dying because of their age, but because they have heart problems. Are the adults that died for this, dying because they're kids, and not because that they have a heart problem as well? Some people just can't take a charge of 50,000 volts without going into cardiac arrest, regardless of age, while the majority can take that shock. </p> </div></p> 13 and older is fine. But kids that are like 7-8, that would be just wrong.</p> </p> </p> </div></p> </p> Yeah, unless the kid has a gun or something, I don't see why a cop would need to use a taser on someone that young. Even a knife (okay maybe a sword you'd need to use it), but for a knife, blunt object, or something, your telling me a full grown man can't just wrap up the kids arms and hold them in place?</p> </p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Ed the Decider)</div><div class='quotemain'>I blame the parents. If they teach kids right from wrong, the cops wont need to use tasers on them.</div> </p> If parents raised their kids to be hardworking, honest, and have good manners they wouldn't grow up to be cops.
There was a fight at my school in HS between a black and a white girl and they tasered them both. lmao</p> </p> Why would u taser a teenage girl? cops are such dicks. </p>
