Palatka is an old Florida logging town on the St. Johns river — and near enough Jacksonville for big city problems to seep into the local community. Indeed, the thinly-inhabited wooded rural acreage around Palatka is well-suited to marijuana grow operations and small meth labs.
Taser range is relatively short—maybe 25 feet.
That takes a lot of guts. While you are drawing and aiming a Taser (and we’ve seen how they don’t always work) the bad guy has a rifle. Whoa.