So it’s official: Taser guns can and do kill. They’re used more often than the media and law enforcement agencies report, and people are dying or suffering long-term injury as a result.
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Spin cycle: tasers in hospitals — who paid for the research?
The media went crazy for the Tasers in hospitals story yesterday, but they made one glaring ommission, writes freelance journalist Amy Corderoy.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Utegate drives everyone mad
Readers are getting a little tired of Utegate, plus views on alternative medicine, the citizenship test, tasers and more.
Crikey Clarifier: How do Tasers work?
A Taser gun fires a pair of barbed spikes into the flesh attached by wires to the gun’s battery pack which delivers a 50,000 volt kick to immobilise a person, explains Lionel Elmore.
