Students Charged after Playing with Stun Gun

Two Central High School students have been charged with weapon possession after officers allege that the two involved were found playing with a stun gun on school grounds.

According to a Hernando County Sheriff’s Office report the two teenagers were arrested on the charges of possessing and discharging the weapon. While on school property the two high school students started shocking each other with the device, normally employed for self defense, in the school’s parking lot.

Deputies explained that the two girls each took turns touching each other with the device in a playful manner before attending a soccer game. School officials later confiscated the tool, while neither girl involved was injured.

A device that is often employed for self defense managed instead to be employed for fun by two high school students. How they were able to access the device is a question that the parents and law enforcement officials will want answering, as the sale of these tools are not permitted to anyone under that age of 18.

Of course, it’s important to realize that just because two students were found employing the device, that doesn’t mean anyone can in fact use them. While they are non-lethal tools that countless law enforcement and law-abiding citizens use on a daily basis for their protection and to apprehend dangerous offenders, they are not devices that should be employed purely for fun.

Anyone who does own a stun gun, or who may be considering the purchase of one, should remember that they shouldn’t be misused. That after all is not their purpose. Instead, these tools were designed purely to protect those who require protection and to subdue those that intend to inflict harm.

Those that misuse the devices are simply presenting them in a negative light to the general public. Not only that, but it also forces people to believe that regardless of a person’s age, they will be able to purchase one and use it in whatever manner they see fit to do.

Over the years, they have been presented with bad press. Further negative reports on their use, don’t need to be added to the pile when in fact all they are intended to do is protect peoples’ lives.