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minus-squareAmidFuror@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down18·3 days agoTasers aren’t a form of non-lethal incapacitation?
minus-squarecurbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down3·3 days agoNot really, no. Tasers can be really fucking dangerous to people. Same with rubber bullets. Just because its publicly called “non-lethal” doesn’t mean they haven’t caused a lot of people to die.
minus-squarePunnyName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·3 days agoWhich is why they’re called “less lethal” now. They are lethal just not AS lethal as a gun (a machine built and designed to kill).
minus-squarePunnyName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·3 days agoNo. “Less lethal” is the actual descriptor. Like rubber bullets (which are about the size of a ping-pong ball).
Tasers aren’t a form of non-lethal incapacitation?
Not really, no.
Tasers can be really fucking dangerous to people. Same with rubber bullets.
Just because its publicly called “non-lethal” doesn’t mean they haven’t caused a lot of people to die.
Which is why they’re called “less lethal” now. They are lethal just not AS lethal as a gun (a machine built and designed to kill).
No.
“Less lethal” is the actual descriptor. Like rubber bullets (which are about the size of a ping-pong ball).