“Don't worry Chris I have a firm GRIP! on this issue. The Police have plenty of other methods at their disposal other than a electric gun that fires an electrical charge!. Pepper spray,body armour,guns if necessary without the use of a Taser torture gun,you know the Police will deploy this weapon as a far more easier option, instead of using more constructive channels of persuasion in the future.Chris,I find your comment about zapping anyone YOU feel is a nuisance to society unerveing,just like you said in your earlier comment "use them on teenagers,whenever they are congregating in groups of 1 and more. Just give them a zap to move them on". O' yes, a ZAP! a couple 100volts,how nice of you....Chris!,so much for understanding your fellow human beings. You were once a teenager...remember???. Nobody's perfect!. I do feel that society needs to reflect on why we need these forms of CONTROL in the first place. What is crime??,why do we need it so much!,who benefit's from creating CRIME in the first place!...and it's not just the criminals who benefit from the system of criminality!....We don't ask the bigger question's because WE as a society are so DUMBED DOWN! and unable to see the bigger picture.”

“For GOD'S sake Justin, GET A GRIP!! Talk about melodramatic!
In case you hadn't noticed the British aren't quite so "gung-ho" as the yanks. The ott and gratuitous over use of tasers that you're ranting on about is NOT going to happen here. I dare say it'll happen so rarely that it'll make news headlines on the twice or thrice anually that it may occur, but I'm sure that the use will be well justified.
Just like to finish with a question for you Justin: How should the Police subdue a violent drunk (with previous convictions for violence), carrying a knife or machete, who's threatening to carve up his girlfriend and any police officer that comes within 10 yards of him?? Looking forward to your snappy and brilliant solution. You have 10 minutes.....”

“Sorry to disappoint you Sarah,but I am not part of the middle class PC brigade that you seem to tag me under!... I find these sorts of comments distasteful to say the least. My point that I raised causes concern to many people across the political & medical spectrum who have raised concern over this form of human abuse. Sarah,how can you call the deployment of the Taser gun across a full Police force "minuscule".Using a Taser as soon as someone displays a "frighting stance" or simply to get a non-violent suspect to do what they are told,rather than for their intended purpose as a last line of defense before lethal action. A UN Committe said The Taser gun causes acute pain and in some cases death "constituting a form of torture".The state will have the right in the future to Taser ANYONE it feels that could be a threat to the system not just the criminal element.Already in Canada the Police have used Taser's on transit fare dodger's....You have to ask yourself Sarah,is that the sort of society that future generations should grow up in!...a Police State with no control over who gets zapped!.”

“Oh dear a minuscule number of police MAY use these devices in a way which the trendy lefty PC brigade may not like!! Oh how ever will we survive. Best the police go unarmed and unprotected against the drunken louts, thugs and vandals who make our society a living hell at times.

Gosh lets not do anything to inconvenience the trouble makers, how will the PC brigade cope?Justin may change his middle class liberal views once he's been mugged a couple of times!!”

“Well said Jim, I am affraid that we are already in the early phases of the Police state in Britain. People don't understand just how serious this issue is!...As a form of control it sounds to good to be true!.. but anytime in the future if the state feels that US the public step out of line,the deployment of such weapons would be used on us. Protestor's in the United States have often been subjected to this brutal microwave gun with the Police laughing at the very people who have been stunned and left convulsing on the floor in total pain or in some cases death. Like I said how would you like if a member of your family was microwaved or Tasered and left to die on a street...”

“another step down the road to a police state,the police allready carry items banned to the british public,eg handguns ,auto rifles,pepper spray,trunctions.enough is enough,they are policemen not storm troopers”

“Good, lets see them used on the Yob element that frequent our towns and villages. 50,000 volts near their backsides would do them some good, although I do like Dave's idea, a real gun.”

“Anything that levels the playing field and gives the police a chance against drunken louts, who are only brave in groups but cowards on their own, is to be welcomed. Perhaps we'll see more of them locked up in overcrowded cells. Human Rights should be suspended for idiots like these.”

“Chris,please...this is a disaster in the making,there will be member's of the Police force who will abuse this tool for public control. Have you seen the American version called the Microwave gun?...this weapon was developed by the U.S. military and it's a terrible creation. The gun can send a charge of upto 1000volts, and I am not kidding!
How would you like yourself or a member of your family to be zapped by one of these sick creation's,with the added bonus of not knowing the adverse health effects down the road!.Didn't think so..”

“About time the police were given an effective weapon against thedrunken louts they have to cope with mainly on a weekend but also at other times. Forget human rights they only apply to humans and maybe a taste of their own medicine will do these cowards good.”