Time to Stop Using Non-Lethal Methods

Our good friends at the UN and Amnesty International have decided to further persecute the government of the country that made them possible and the system that made it possible for them to operate in peace. Those two organizations have declared war on good old fashioned capitalism and the United States and Taser International by calling the use of a taser a form of torture.

Now I personally have been on the receiving end of a taser (voluntarily so that I would know what it was before I made personal decisions about it). I will openly tell you that it is a wonderfully unpleasant and highly effective experience that I would not like to repeat. I would not, however, call it torture. I call it a non-lethal and effective deterrent to deadly force for those people who have compunctions about gun ownership or potentially having to take a life in the service of their own self-defense.

That being said, I also believe that it is a far more effective deterrent in the field when used by police and military personnel than bullets. I also believe that bullets have a place. But when your job is to serve the peace or get someone back for interrogation alive, there is no better tool. And in the end, the taser, like a hammer, a wrench, a computer, and a firearm, is a tool. The fact is that we can use anything that comes our way for either lethal or non-lethal means if we choose to. And unlike many alternatives, a taser causes no loss of blood and does not need to be precise to have a non-lethal effect. Think about it, just try to put a bullet or a knife through someones critical mass without making them bleed out or killing them... good luck. Killing a person with a taser, on the other hand, is extremely hard. I mean, you seriously have to try to kill a person with a taser to kill them, and even then, it's not guaranteed.

But, if the U.N. and Amnesty International want to call it torture, I guess we can always get our police and military back to shooting all suspects and killing them rather than being tried for war crimes. Because if we cannot use non-lethal means, and talking won't always work, we are left with only one option.