TFA: "This device has changed my life," she told a room full of women in suburban Miami last week. "I no longer live in fear. I challenge you all with one question. How will you defend yourself if you're attacked?"

I think that this may be the single most pathetic thing I have ever read.

So, despite the rate of violent crime in the US is declining to it's lowest level in 2005 since records were started, the TASER(TM) Corporation is peddling their business of fear and helping to put weapons in the hands of people untrained in their use and uninterested in the outcomes. Great.

Actual DOJ Statistics:

Don't taze me HO!

In states that have concealed carry, I think the better choice would be a firearm, if not for the range of attack factor alone!!!

Z1P2: Don't taze me HO!

Don't taze me, Flo!

I cannot be trusted with a Tazer, and cannot afford bail. Therefore, I will not attend one of these little parties.

/but I can dream
//and oh, I will

Macular Degenerate: So, despite the rate of violent crime in the US is declining to it's lowest level in 2005 since records were started, the TASER(TM) Corporation is peddling their business of fear and helping to put weapons in the hands of people untrained in their use and uninterested in the outcomes. Great.

Actual DOJ Statistics:

This is no way a defence of Taser, but in the economic downtown I'd expect to see that rise quite sharply.

Z1P2: Don't taze me HO!

I think more women should be attending those sex toy parties. They'd be a lot happier in the long run!

12.fl.oz.: Goobermensch: Z1P2: Don't taze me HO!

Don't taze me, Flo!

Don't taze me, Jo!

Don't taze me LaDayquil!

/ahh hell, I just failed didn't I?
/mope

meekychuppet: TFA: "This device has changed my life," she told a room full of women in suburban Miami last week. "I no longer live in fear. I challenge you all with one question. How will you defend yourself if you're attacked?"

I think that this may be the single most pathetic thing I have ever read.

Amen. She seems to be not too trusting of people.

/you should move out of the bad area you live in

Suicidal Writer

I wish more people would realize that firearms are the best defense against criminals, and really evens the playing field for women.

Teddy Roosevelt said it best:

"God made men and women... Colonel Colt made them equal!!!"

:)

FTFA: Miss Shafman, 35...

That's hardly shocking.

12.fl.oz.: Goobermensch: Z1P2: Don't taze me HO!

Don't taze me, Flo!

Don't taze me, Jo!

Don't taze me, Mo!

Don't copy these lame memes, yo.

Haoie: Don't copy these lame memes, yo.

Shut your pie hole, schmoe!

Meanwhile, more and more men wising up to the fact that they don't need to buy a ring to get the goodies. Have more money and leisure time to themselves.

Haoie: Don't copy these lame memes, yo.

"Set Player-Hater Phasers to NonoStun and Ho Don't Run"

Gobobo: 12.fl.oz.: Goobermensch: Z1P2: Don't taze me HO!

Don't taze me, Flo!

Don't taze me, Jo!

Don't taze me, Mo!

Don't taze me, Snow!

/Informer?

Hell, I'm divorced so there ain't nothing my ex-wife can do to shock me anymore.

Anyone else think people aren't taking tasers seriously enough? Hell, earlier this morning I watched cops at my school use a taser on some ridiculously drunk kid who freaked and tried to run off. maybe it's acceptable to use one instead of the very short chase needed to catch this kid, but were the subsequent 4 shocks really needed?

Sure, he was still "trying to get away" officer. Who be be writhing in pain if they just froze up running full speed and slammed into the ground?

Damn, I thought it was to get together and taze each other. Now that would be badass... I'm keen for an electric fence touching party.

Macular Degenerate: So, despite the rate of violent crime in the US is declining to it's lowest level in 2005 since records were started, the TASER(TM) Corporation is peddling their business of fear and helping to put weapons in the hands of people untrained in their use and uninterested in the outcomes.

I hate fear mongerers too, but a declining rate doesn't mean a low rate, and it's irrelevant when you're the one being attacked.

I thought the Taser party WAS a sex toy party...

Don't taze me, Ro...

Should have gotten the 38 mm revolver rather then the .38 mm. Small cannon ftw.

gluestickralph: Should have gotten the 38 mm revolver rather then the .38 mm. Small cannon ftw.

.38 mm ?! That's small. A typical toothpick is 2.0 mm.

/maybe you meant .38 Inches?

St. Hubbins: Anyone else think people aren't taking tasers seriously enough? Hell, earlier this morning I watched cops at my school use a taser on some ridiculously drunk kid who freaked and tried to run off. maybe it's acceptable to use one instead of the very short chase needed to catch this kid, but were the subsequent 4 shocks really needed?

Sure, he was still "trying to get away" officer. Who be be writhing in pain if they just froze up running full speed and slammed into the ground?

At least he wasn´t shot. I consider the cops Tasering a fleeing suspect to be a form of operant social conditioning. Learn how to lie to police, people. It´s not hard.

/No, officer, I had no idea I was doing 85 in a 55. . .

Forget banning guns. If I ever campaigned to ban any weapon, it would be tasers. As someone else said, nobody takes them seriously.

How would I suggest women defend themselves?

Take a page from the gay playbook...

With a slight modification these parties could really be something

raab: Miss

Why?

thisispete: Macular Degenerate: So, despite the rate of violent crime in the US is declining to it's lowest level in 2005 since records were started, the TASER(TM) Corporation is peddling their business of fear and helping to put weapons in the hands of people untrained in their use and uninterested in the outcomes. Great.

Actual DOJ Statistics:

This is no way a defence of Taser, but in the economic downtown I'd expect to see that rise quite sharply.

No, not likely. Unless you are expecting some sort of road-warrioresque economic downturn. People simply just don't jump from honest law-abiding citizens to violent criminals simply because they couldn't afford a new television.

I know pessimism is fun, but the only spike we will see in those numbers will occur if the government criminalize something currently legal.

An increasing trend, that's possible. A spike just isn't likely.

"Taser party? Been there, done that."

How stupid. The taser is absolutely useless unless 1) it's readily available at all times (that is, not buried with the rest of your crap in your bookbag or purse), and 2) you're willing to use it at all.

You also have to wonder if they give a sense of over-confidence and/or encourage stupid behavior. Would these women engage in high-risk behavior (that is, not avoid getting into a situation in the first place) because they think their magical taser will save them if danger arose?

meiac article itself said .38 mm. I as a gun nut would never make that mistake lol.

PrincessOfPenguins: How stupid. The taser is absolutely useless unless 1) it's readily available at all times (that is, not buried with the rest of your crap in your bookbag or purse), and 2) you're willing to use it at all.

You also have to wonder if they give a sense of over-confidence and/or encourage stupid behavior. Would these women engage in high-risk behavior (that is, not avoid getting into a situation in the first place) because they think their magical taser will save them if danger arose?

Points 1 and 2 are spot-on. You need to have weapons right at hand for them to be useful. Since most criminals are planning a crime--and you are not--they have the jump on you. And most people overestimate their willingness to hurt other people, even when justified.

As for "stupid behavior?" Most of the people I know who have been placed in danger by stupid behavior are men. Most women are pretty cautious in their behavior, even if they are armed.

Nothing sells like fear, sheeple.

ME-iac:
gluestickralph: Should have gotten the 38 mm revolver rather then the .38 mm. Small cannon ftw.

.38 mm ?! That's small. A typical toothpick is 2.0 mm.

/maybe you meant .38 Inches?

Eh, Gluestickralph had it right. He was making a joke about the misreporting of the .38 (inch) revolver as a ".38mm" revolver, which would be about the right size for a mouse to carry as a sidearm. Instead, he was opting for the 38mm revolver. Note the lack of a decimal point. This almost-equally unlikely sidearm would have a barrel diameter of about 1 and 1/2 inches. Hence the "small cannon ftw" comment. I personally carry a 10mm Kahr Arms pistol, which is adequate for personal defense. A 38mm revolver would be a one-shot gun, since the recoil would break the wrist of the user. But that one shot should be adequate to bring down a rhino or a schoolbus.

TBC: Haoie: Don't copy these lame memes, yo.

"Set Player-Hater Phasers to NonoStun and Ho Don't Run"

Gobobo: 12.fl.oz.: Goobermensch: Z1P2: Don't taze me HO!

Don't taze me, Flo!

Don't taze me, Jo!

Don't taze me, Mo!

Don't taze me, Snow!

/Informer?


Don't taze me, [Margaret] Cho!

She had previously slept with a baseball bat by her bed and later a knife stashed under her pillow before she fell in love with the first stun gun marketed directly at women. "The Taser is my seatbelt for life," she enthused. "There is now no longer any day when I believe I am going to get raped or assaulted."

That woman has issues. I'd love to know how many times she was almost raped or almost assaulted. My guess is zero.

The don't taze me bro guy should move to one of the 8 states where they don't allow tazers.

LotP, LOL! That thing probably doesn't even need to be functional to make potential criminals tuck tail and run!

corbell: First up was Louise Isaacs, a bottle-blonde 58-year-old grandmother who relies on a .38mm pistol for safety.

... Nice. S&W Flea-frame revolver?

Oh Yeah, S&W ran (don't know if they still are) extensive fear mongering ad campaigns aimed at women and their need to defend themselves from the stranger in the parking lot (the black, hispanic, brown stranger).

It would be better if they ran ads showing them defending themselves against their drunk, abusive boyfriends, husbands, fathers, brothers, because that is more accurate.

Of course, as I learned people are less willing to actually defend themselves against family and friends, much less shoot them.

Reality is a biatch.

TheWizard: thisispete: Macular Degenerate: So, despite the rate of violent crime in the US is declining to it's lowest level in 2005 since records were started, the TASER(TM) Corporation is peddling their business of fear and helping to put weapons in the hands of people untrained in their use and uninterested in the outcomes. Great.

Actual DOJ Statistics:

This is no way a defence of Taser, but in the economic downtown I'd expect to see that rise quite sharply.

No, not likely. Unless you are expecting some sort of road-warrioresque economic downturn. People simply just don't jump from honest law-abiding citizens to violent criminals simply because they couldn't afford a new television.

I know pessimism is fun, but the only spike we will see in those numbers will occur if the government criminalize something currently legal.

An increasing trend, that's possible. A spike just isn't likely.

Unless the food supply is significantly disrupted. Once diesel hits close to $6/gallon, expect a lot of trucking companies to disappear, then how will people get their food that is not produced in their region. When people can't eat, it gets ugly.

SlappyKincaid: Suicidal Writer

I wish more people would realize that firearms are the best defense against criminals, and really evens the playing field for women.

Teddy Roosevelt said it best:

"God made men and women... Colonel Colt made them equal!!!"

:)

From whom are women most frequently defending themselves? It isn't the (large black or brown) stranger that most gun advocates imagine. It is men they know, boyfriends, husbands, fathers, brothers, and uncles.

A lot of the same people I hear advocate for firearms for women's "safety" also seem to get upset about the women who shoot their husbands and get off for self-defense (you may not be like that). The reality is that women aren't as endangered by strangers as they are by men they already know.

I am not against women learning about firearms for safety, but it has to be put in the proper context, and it rarely is.

Ok, for one point, we have PrincessOfPenguins blaming the victim.

And we have another two points to meekychuppet, who succinctly denied both sexual assault statistics and minimized the threat of sexual assault that most women live with.

Who else is up to play?

Uh, how am I blaming the victim?

I think they should skip the tasers and learn to use guns. I'd like to see women get some REAL power back.

You also have to wonder if they give a sense of over-confidence and/or encourage stupid behavior. Would these women engage in high-risk behavior (that is, not avoid getting into a situation in the first place) because they think their magical taser will save them if danger arose?

The purpose of the taser is well summed up in the article. It gives these women freedom to exercise the same caution as a man; it empowers them. Identifying their 'recklessness' (also known as freedom) as a danger to them is the same as blaming them for being assaulted.

But you only got one point because you aren't spiteful, only misled.

PrincessOfPenguins: Uh, how am I blaming the victim?

I think this is what poster meant:
"Would these women engage in high-risk behavior (that is, not avoid getting into a situation in the first place) because they think their magical taser will save them if danger arose?

WTF is "high risk behavior?" Doing dumb/vulnerable things? Well, that's most crime victims of both sexes. But women I know are less likely to do high-risk stuff than most males, which is why men are more likely to to crime victims. Apparently, guys feel they will be saved by the magical peener.