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The Tazer is a gun that causes complience under threat of pain.
Now, if it is used on you ...why cannot this also be banned because it is a 'torture ' device and the recipient is subject to cruel and unusual punishment.
Very similar words ('No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment') appear in Article Five of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (A/RES/217, December 10, 1948). The right, under a different formulation ('No one shall be subjected to [...] inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.') is found in Article Three of the European Convention on Human Rights (1950). The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (1982) also contains this fundamental right in section 12 and it is to be found again in Article Four (quoting the European Convention verbatim) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (2000).
NY/RI etc has outlawed lethal injections on the same grounds...how come it's okay to zap someone with 50kv and it's not ruled as same?
Test case someone ?
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