Home Invasion!

In York, Pa, a city close to mine, a man broke into a home at 1:30am, shot the homeowner and took a car, police said.

Connie Cooper, 64, was working in her office and heard a noise and went downstairs to find a man wearing gloves and a ski mask downstairs, police said. 

She alerted her husband, 66-year-old William Cooper, who was sleeping upstairs, police said. He came down, struggled with the man and was shot in the chest.

William Cooper is in critical condition at York Hospital.

After he was shot, his wife locked herself in her office. The intruder broke down the door and demanded her car keys. She gave the man her purse and he made his getaway in the family’s blue Hyundai Elantra.

The article also states that the stolen card was found in Maryland and towed back to the York crime lab. The man is still on the loose. The police said they think the break in was random.

This type of crime occurs every day somewhere. What would have caused a better outcome in this case?  Let’s say instead of coming down and grappling with the man, he used his TASER that he keeps in his bedroom and shot the intruder with it at a distance of about 12 feet. The man would have gone down immediately, he would have called the police who would have arrested the man and taken him away. No shot husband.

Let’s say the husband instead had a high voltage stun gun on his night table. He goes downstairs, grapples with the intruder and immediately stuns the man in the neck, in the ribs, anywhere and everywhere he could. When the man goes down, the man grabs the gun. While his wife calls the police, he stands next to the incapacitated man, stunning him whenever he attempts to focus.

Let’s suppose the husband had neither of these self defense items.  But he did have ultra hot pepper spray under the bed which he quickly retrieved. From a distance of 8 feet, he sprays the intruder in the face. The man gasps, his hand go to his eyes but he can’t rub them clear. In essence, he is temporarily blind. They call the police who take the intruder away. The husband is safe, the wife has her purse and the car is in the garage.

Nothing more needs to be said. Stun guns and pepper spray and safe effective and inexpensive self defense product. Consumer model TASERs are more sophisticated and cost more but have a virtually 100% sure and quick take down power. That’s why police use them. 

Stun Gun Supply is proud to help Americans exercise their God given right to self defense.

Tasers Get Postive Press.

Two recent studies claim the use of TASERs is safe, within limits. First the National Institute of Justice released a 74-page report that states that there is no medical evidence showing the devices pose a significant risk for cardiac arrest in humans when they are deployed reasonably.

"All evidence suggests that the use of CEDs carries with it a risk as low or lower than most alternatives," the report says, adding that the decision to use stun guns is best left up to trained law enforcers at the crime scene.

In a second study, researchers surveyed agencies across the country about use-of-force issues. They found that Tasers, which deliver muscle-convulsing pulses of electricity through darts shot from a gun, can reduce injuries.
Findings from the studies will help law enforcement make decisions about using stun guns, the NIJ said.

TASER In The Media

We've written about TASER® guns before. We're surprised they cause so much media fueled controversy. More US and Canadian police departments are using them to good effect. It's another tool for police officers who are called upon to defuse out-of-control situations. Yes, some officers in the heat of a stressful situation will use the TASER inappropriately. A certain percentage of officers miss-use their firearms too but that causes needless loss of life.

A recent article in the Winston-Salem Journal on-line brought this home. In part it says,

"As the Winston-Salem City Council decides whether police officers should have Taser stun guns, it should consider the experience that the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office has had with them. Deputies have been using the electroshock weapons for about two years now, often when they're outnumbered in fights, whether in the jail or the schools, said Sheriff Bill Schatzman. The weapons protect the officers and the public, he said. It's better than using a baton or pepper spray, he said, because "it's surgical in deployment."

The article sites a recent case at the Mount Tabor High School when Deputy Tracy Steen used an electric shock weapon. He was trying to break up a fight in the cafeteria between two students where one refused to calm down, according to the sheriff's office. Tables were overturned, one landing on an innocent bystander.

After the incident was over, sentiment was overwhelming on the side of the police officer. That's weapons jargon for saying that the stun guns, if used properly, don't hit innocent bystanders. That apparently was the case just over a week ago at Mount Tabor High School when Deputy Tracy Steen used a stun gun. He was trying to break up a fight in the cafeteria between two students when one of them refused to calm down, according to the sheriff's office.

Many of the e-mails in response to Journal stories about the fight have supported the deputy. One e-mailer said that when she heard about the incident at her daughter's school, "my first reaction was concern about the use of Tasers in schools. But then my daughter came home from school and told me what she saw.... Tables were overturned, one landed on top of an innocent bystander.... This incident could have escalated into a tragedy...."

We don't condone the indiscriminate use of the TASER®. It's a tool. It can be used or miss-used. Users must be educated to the proper use of the device.

A couple additional comments: Notice how the media confuses stun guns and TASER® products! Even in the article quoted above, there is a mention of the device as stun gun. There is no such thing as a taser stun gun. TASER International disapproves of that appellation. A stun gun is a hand held device with two attached electrodes. The device must be held to the individual while the user presses the button. A TASER device projects two probes with two thin electrical wires attached that fly through the air to land on the perpetrator. The electrical charge is sent through the wires.

Also, TASER is not spelled TAZER. TAZER get almost as many hits on Google As TASER!

Police Take Aim For More Stun Guns

That was the headline in a recent Edmonton Sun newspaper article. It reports a Canadian police agency's view that conducted energy weapons are not harmful and cannot be traced to any death. Here is the article in part:


Police groups want to arm more officers with stun guns while opposition MPs renew calls to restrict use of the controversial weapons.

The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police and the Canadian Police Association appeared in Ottawa yesterday to convince the public stun guns are essential tools that save lives.

"We are here to address the inaccurate and incomplete information that is circulating in the public related to the use of conducted energy weapons by police," said Thomas Kaye, vice-president of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police.

"There is no evidence, either scientific or medical, that a conducted energy weapon has been the direct cause of death anywhere, at any time, on any person."


Our view:

We don't have the oversight that a police bureau would have in assessing stun gun and TASER usage and their effects. We can make the following points:

1. The media often confuses stun guns and TASERs as though they are one. Stun guns must be administered directly to a person's skin or clothing to be effective. TASERs emit two darts on tethered electrified wires that attaches on to a person's clothing or skin from a distance of 15-25 feet, depending on the model. Both emit a similar low amperage high voltage charge. It is the low amperage that makes these non-lethal and allows the general public to buy TASERs for self-defense.

2. In the highly charged atmosphere of a police-perpetrator encounter, adrenaline flows are high. This results in occasional over-zealous use of weaponry, both in firearms and so called non-lethal weapons such as stun guns, TASER and pepper spray. To think otherwise is not realistic.

3. In this same charged atmosphere, the perpetrator is sometimes agitated and out-of-control, high on stimulant drugs or sometimes simply delusional and acting wildly and inappropriately. This makes that person more susceptible to medical emergencies of the heart and nervous system when these conducted energy weapons are applied.

4. Any impartial reading of the data suggests one conclusion: TASERs have gained overwhelming acceptance in the western world's police agencies. It is the preferred alternative to lethal force in subduing an out-of-control suspect in many situations. Like anything, it not not 100% safe in all conditions. It must be used with restraint and with good judgment.

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Tasers Rate High In Safety

A study sited in a recent newspaper examines the use of Taser stun guns in Calgary, Canada.

Sherri Zickefoose of the Calgary Herald writes that the new study finds batons are batons are causing the greatest rate of injury when used by police during arrests.

The two-year Calgary study, the first use-of-force examination of its kind in Canada, also found pepper spray was the safest tool employed by police to subdue suspects who were resisting arrest.

The Canadian Police Research Centre report examines 562 cases in which Calgary police used Tasers, pepper spray, batons, unarmed techniques and choke holds -- against people resisting arrest.

The 14-page study found Tasers "scored high" in safety for both suspects and officers in Calgary. Though they were used in nearly half of all cases involving suspects resisting arrest, one per cent ended up hospitalized and 87 per cent sustained either minor injuries or no injuries, according to the report.

Batons, on the other hand, used in roughly five per cent of arrests that required force, caused the greatest rate of higher-level injury. More than 39 per cent of subjects were injured. More than three per cent were hospitalized and nearly 26 per cent required outpatient treatment.

"The commonly held belief" that Tasers carry "a significant risk of injury or death . . . is not supported by the data," according to the report, researched by Dr. Christine Hall and Calgary use-of-force expert Staff Sgt. Chris Butler. The stun guns are "less injurious than either the baton or empty-hand physical control."

U.S. agencies are also participating in the larger study, Butler said, because American and Canadian police encounters are surprisingly similar. More Canadian fatality inquiries are highlighting the need for consistent use of force tracking, he said.