I ate some cereal and saw a story on Fox New Network about a cop who was told he had to either take a desk job or receive a taser jolt so that he could then carry one. The cop had a metal plate in his neck and two doctors (one of them was the department’s) said that he should not risk it.

The cop quit just shy of 30 years of service and is suing. The people are debating the issue but completely missing the point. If there are some medical conditions that make tasing too risky, then why are cops given tasers and told to use them to subdue people?

Tasers are being distributed as some kind of “safe” device for subduing people when they are nothing of the kind. They are giving cops rationalizations for taking actions they should not take.