With all of the different kinds of tasers penetrating the market and becoming so cheap, I am beginning to worry that it may become the new weapon of choice of robbers, muggers, etc. Sure they'll make tough laws against it, but that doesn't stop them from toting guns and knives around, and it doesn't affect what little conscience they may have as much as a knife or a gun- they can use this weapon to totally incapacitate victims without killing them! It also may cause the kinds of people who would be robbers, but the knife/gun thing (the idea of killing somebody over it) is stopping them. This doesn't seem like such a good idea to me. While it's great that my wife can now defend herself with a little can that looks like a bottle of lipstick, the chances of things like this getting into the wrong hands are way disproportionate to the benefits. I think I would rather keep the tasers off the streets (except police of course) and just make sure my wife has a good old can of pepper spray, or better yet, I could just go everywhere with her. :-)

by your logic, pepper sprays arn't any good either.

How exactly are you going to keep tasers off the streets, if you can't keep guns and knives off the streets? I fail to see the logic. Why not buy your wife a gun/knife/taser?

What's next, a dildo shocker? Ouch!

In Canada last year were few deaths from Taser use. Done by police againt un-armed people considered dangereous... Seems that the line between life and death depends now much on individual values...

Americans are fighting for the right for everyone to have a gun. The argument being that you need one to protect yourself but the reality being that free availability of guns is what makes the USA a dangerous place to be in the first place. In such an environment I am not worried about Tasers.

There is no such thing as a bad taser, knife, or gun. Once people acknowledge this we will be able to put blame on the real problem, bad people. No matter what is legal or not, bad people will always find a way to rob you. Look at prisons, they make weapons out of a tooth brush! At least here in the USA, I have the right to defend myself with a taser, mace, firearm, etc. I don't know about you, but I don't want to live in a country that I don't have the right to defend myself!

I own quite a few weapons, including an entire collection of knives, a high powered dart gun, an extendable, a few rifles, & a .22 semi-auto pistol with a long slide on it (reduces noise, while not being classified as a silencer, while increasing power) and a taser

I would happily forgo using any of the weapons (other than the taser of course), in the case of a break-in, for my handy taser (maybe not a pink lipstick taser) simply for the fact that it WOULD NOT KILL the assailant.

Do you want to make me a killer by taking away the tasers?

"Demon3: Americans are fighting for the right for everyone to have a gun. "

Wrong. We already have that right. It's guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the Constitution.

"Demon3: The argument being that you need one to protect yourself but the reality being that free availability of guns is what makes the USA a dangerous place to be in the first place."

Again, wrong. The most dangerous places in the USA are the big cities, where dunderheaded politicians have attempted to disarm the honest citizenry.

As has been shown repeatedly, where carry laws are liberalized or non-existent, there is less crime. (See: John R. Lott, More Guns, Less Crime).

Deprive the people of arms and crime explodes, just as it did in the UK, Canada and Australia. Nazi Germany and Communist Russia are prime examples of the possible fate of a disarmed citizenry, as our Founding Fathers were well aware.

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government"
-- Thomas Jefferson

"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good"
-- George Washington

"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed."
-- Alexander Hamilton

"A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves ... and include all men capable of bearing arms."
-- Senator Richard Henry Lee, 1788, on "militia" in the 2nd Amendment

"To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
-- George Mason

I find it funny that you argure guns protect people, and reference Canada and UK as prime examples of why you don't want to remove guns.

In all of canada last year, there were only something like 150 deaths by gunfire. In the US that number is somewhere closer to 10000.

We have a population 1/10th the size of yours, and as such should have at least 1000 deaths, and because we have no guns to protect ourselves, we should actually be WAY higher. But we aren't, only 150ish. Go figure eh.

Oh, and if you also knew anything about the UK you would know that stabbings are their highest form of lethal attack, not guns, in the UK knives are the weapon of choice.

"Deprive the people of arms and crime explodes, just as it did in the UK, Canada and Australia. Nazi Germany and Communist Russia are prime examples of the possible fate of a disarmed citizenry, as our Founding Fathers were well aware."

and where did you get your numbers from? also, what do the Founding Fathers have to do with Nazi Germany and Comunist Russia (btw, pre or post ww2?) ?

anyone carring a gun has the willingness to use it (why else carry one?). (hand)guns serve only one purpose, hurting others, concluding that everyone carring a gun has the willingness to hurt others.

why does avarage joe need a gun at all if he doesn't work with it? a small pen** and the need to compensate?