A bunch of dog items in my to blog folder that do not warrant their own individual posts, but here goes. Officers subdue a pit bull with a taser. Doggie genocide in Arkansas: Unaware that there is no breed called a pit bull, Hot Springs officials voted to prevent adoption of pit bulls and pit […]

Taser will implement background checks on buyers of their products: Taser International Inc. is hiring a company to conduct criminal background checks and verify the identity of private citizens trying to buy its stun guns. Taser chose Atlanta-based ChoicePoint Asset Co. to provide online criminal background information and identity verification, said Rick Smith, Taser’s co-founder […]

In SC, an officer used a taser on a 75 year-old nursing home patient. I’m all for tasers provided they’re used when appropriate. However, tasering an elderly lady who could have very likely been controlled in another manner is atrocious.

Conventional wisdom regulates machine guns because they’re too dangerous for regular Joes to have even though such ownership is Constitutionally protected. They call it a revenue measure but that is clearly not the case. Some weapons may be regulated because they aren’t dangerous enough: Tasers, an incapacitating electro-shock weapon popular among law enforcement agencies around […]

Us anonymous guys in pajamas have no credibility, or so factions of the media say. When the media choose to be anonymous, it’s an editorial. In this particular case, that’s a good thing as I can’t see how someone would want to take credit for something so damn stupid. This Times Herald editorial on police […]

A few times I have opined that I think people, particularly police, carrying non less-than-lethal weapons may lead to unnecessary use of those weapons. In other words, if one has a taser or pepper spray, they may use it when it is unnecessary whereas the finality of using a gun would not result in its […]

Any readers in Columbus, OH may want to attend a public hearing to discuss a local assault weapons ban, as well as taser and stun guns. National medical groups (somehow this report is coming out of India) are using the expiration of the ban as a tool to push to do something about gun violence. […]

1) Butter fly knives and gravity knives are illegal in New York? Yup. They are. 2) And a 75 year old woman, who refused to leave a nursing home where she was visiting a sick friend, was tasered.

A while back, I opined that carrying non-lethal weapons could make someone be more inclined to resort to the use of those weapons even though doing so was unnecessary. I got a lot of flack for that. I should point out that the police in Oklahoma have doubled the use of tasers in the last […]

Via Bubba comes this: A motorist’s decision to stop a deputy for speeding escalated into a series of incidents than ended with his entire family joining him in jail. Last week, Lance E. Champion, 23, reportedly pulled in behind Deputy Lt. Stan Hillis across from the local jail and told Hillis he had violated the […]

From Jacksonville, FL: [Sheriff’s Office] To Be Armed With Automatic Weapons, Tasers That’s the headline. Interesting. I wonder what kind of automatic weapons. [E]very officer will now have access to an automatic AR-15 and will be armed with a taser. An automatic AR-15, huh? Police said the new semi-automatic rifle was chosen for several reasons… […]

Even blind old ladies terrify the cops: She was 71 years old. She was blind. She needed her 94-year-old mother to come to her rescue. And in the middle of the dogfight — in which Eunice Crowder was pepper-sprayed, Tasered and knocked to the ground by Portland’s courageous men in blue — the poor woman’s […]

The mayor of Cincinnati has recommended police carry stun guns. This reminded my of an issue: I do not advocate citizens carrying pepper spray, stun guns, and other non lethals. It’s their right to do so, but I think it’s a bad idea. For the police, it’s likely a good idea that they carry them. […]

Per this: Okanogan County sheriff’s deputies seeking a person on outstanding warrants broke down the door to the wrong home and then jolted a man with a Taser in front of his wife and child. It seems to me that knocking first would have prevented this, hence my opposition to no-knock warrants.