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- From: nadja@jetsun.weitek.COM (Nadja Adolf)
- Subject: Re: the US elections...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.193232.23957@jetsun.weitek.COM>
- Organization: WEITEK Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
- References: <1992Nov16.030038.24360@news2.cis.umn.edu> <Bxvnuz.IG1@world.std.com> <BxxIuu.K48@access.digex.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 19:32:32 GMT
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- In article <BxxIuu.K48@access.digex.com> corun@access.digex.com (Corun MacAnndra) writes:
- >In article <Bxvnuz.IG1@world.std.com> marty@world.std.com (Marty M HaleEvans) writes:
- >>
- >>What do some of you think of the hand-held stun weapons that are coming onto
- >>the market? These are relatively inexpensive (~$100), easy to use, easy to
- >>carry, legal, and produce no lasting harm. Just enough neural disruption to
- >>allow one to escape. There was some writing about them in the newest _MONDO
- >>2000_. My husband and I have been talking about them as a non-violent option
- >>to the self-defense problem.
- >>Any thoughts?
- >>Marty
-
- >As for the relative merits of it vs. a handgun, I've never heard of any
- >incidents where someone's heart couldn't take the shock and the person died,
- >but we are talking about electricity here. Maybe someone else knows more
- >about these things.
-
- It could be a problem if someone had a pacemaker. A bigger problem is that
- it appears that assailants are likely to just keep coming. It doesn't work
- unless you get a good contact, and this can be harder to do than it is
- in theory. In some cases, it just makes them more hostile if they get a
- buzz from it. And they are of no use in a multiple attacker situation; and
- multiple attacker situations are becoming more and more common as criminals
- discover that working in groups has more advantages in a society where people
- are increasingly less likely to have effective means of resistance.
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