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Originally Posted by Flubflow
Too Close? A sword has a range of a few feet. Police tasers have a ranges up to 20ft.
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Tasers are a good thing, in my opinion. But again, the type of taser you refer to involves aiming and firing. Now, what if the police miss their moving target? What if they hit the person in the car? What if the swordsman then hacks wildly and kills/maims someone? Tasers are great in the right situation; I don't think this would have been the right situation.
In this case, with only a paucity of facts available right now, I think they handled it right. One could say "If you live by the sword, you die by the sword", but I guess we shall never know exactly how far he would have gone with it. As for the American Police, there is a running joke over there about our Police. Theirs shout "Stop, or I'll shoot"; ours say "Stop, or I'll shout "Stop" again". There's a comparison for you.