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To: NELSON111; kearnyirish2

Once upon a time, a cop could deploy a nightstick. A taser is a really poor close quarters melee weapon. When things are happening fast at close range, swinging a nightstick was non lethal, but often brought permanent damage to the recipient of blows, which brought lawsuits, which led to their being largely dropped from police usage. A taser just doesn’t replace it from what I can tell.


47 posted on 03/11/2015 4:55:52 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

If that is what you want then stop issuing guns; once the cop is responsible for it, he has to protect it. Read about Thomas Trantino and the murder of two cops in the 1960s in NJ; without going into detail, the story will stop any cop from losing his gun.


78 posted on 03/11/2015 2:13:44 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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