Ravenwood - 02/22/05 07:00 AM
Government agents who use them say they are perfectly safe. But politicians in California think they're deadly and have proposed a bill to ban them. A civilian caught carrying one could get a year in jail. Using one could get them three years. So, what are they?
They're TASER guns and naturally, they would still be legal and acceptable for police to use. Just not the regular California peons.
So on one hand we have the enforcement branch of the government telling us that TASER guns are perfectly safe to use as cattleprods. On the other hand, the legislators are saying they are so deadly that law abiding citizens cannot be trusted with them.
So the people of California will no longer be able to safeguard themselve from an 83-year old man armed with a ball point?
Good thing the cops have 'em!
IANAL, but it would seem like this law would make lawsuits against cops who use tasers in situations clearly not calling for deadly force a lot easier. "According to the California legislature, it's a deadly weapon and you used it as a cattleprod."
Posted by: markm at February 22, 2005 12:04 PMIANAL is a new one for me, and I had to look it up. According to Urban Dictionary, IANAL either means you are declaring "I am not a lawyer" or that you are about to assfuck someone. (which actually makes you sound like you are a lawyer)
Posted by: Ravenwood at February 22, 2005 12:57 PMRegarding Rave's comment on IANAL...
Vernor's ginger ale all over my monitor!
Ha!
Posted by: Steve Scudder at February 22, 2005 2:55 PMSounds like something from the People's Republik of Kalifornia......
Posted by: Robert Garrard at February 22, 2005 6:21 PM(c) Ravenwood and Associates, 1990 - 2014
