For as long as there has been law enforcement there have been non-lethal ways to subdue people. These days one of the devices used to do this is called a stun gun and police aren’t the only ones who carry them. They are used by civilians who want protection from heartless thugs who would attack them. However, the ones that people use today are much different than the first models. In fact, the first version wasn’t even used on people.
It’s amazing how much trust we give to people that we share the roads with. We drive from place to place and don’t really worry about the people we’re driving with. You can’t always trust everyone though. There are a lot of drunk drivers that surround us and one town got a big taste of an untrustworthy driver.
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St. Louis County police officers confronted a combative man last Tuesday. DeBoise, a schizophrenic who was off his medication, emerged from the house on Lake Paddock Drive, naked and in a highly agitated state. In an effort to subdue him, officers used a TASER.
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Use of Force reports filed by the Ottawa, Canada police force were recently gathered and surveyed by a Canadian newspaper. The time frame covered includes the period starting right after TASER Guns were provided to the force (October 2000) and concluding in March of 2008.
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If you’re not a woman, chances are you have at least one woman in your life whose well-being and safety you care about, especially if that woman is your college-aged daughter.
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If you’ve watched television at all in the early evenings during the last few months, you’ve probably seen those catchy (albeit a little annoying) Jitterbug advertisements that market a simple-to-use cell phone to baby boomers and senior citizens. While their concept is simple and thoughtful for their boomer and beyond demographic, they’re really onto something! Baby boomers and seniors are concerned about their safety at home and away, and as the population in the United States ages, their need for personal emergency communication devices and self-defense tools is growing greater than ever.
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Arizona based, Taser International Inc. seems to be the focus of breaking news each time someone dies after being hit by one of it’s stun gun devices, which has made marketing their products seem as attractive as being jolted by one of the famous stun guns. This negative media attention paired with several product-liability and wrongful-injury lawsuits and the use of their devices being outlawed by various US and foreign governments had taken its toll on the self-defense company.
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Those personal defense items that stun the assailant surprisingly such as stun batons are quickly gaining popularity on the self-defense scene these days. Why are stun batons so popular, you may ask? First of all, it doesn’t take much skill or training for the average person to learn how to effectively use one of these self-protection devices. Secondly, the attacker does not suffer lasting injury by use of a stun baton; rather it will leave him unable to function just long enough for the victim to escape from the situation.
Health experts have recently named antidepressants as the second most commonly prescribed class of drugs today among youth patients aged 19 and under in the United States. Physicians and medical professionals prescribe antidepressants for a whole host of reasons, including a sharp rise in the instances when they are called upon to manage and treat patients with mental illnesses and bipolar disorder diagnoses.
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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics the top two most dangerous occupations in the United States are (1) timber cutter, and (2) airline pilot. Despite those figures, headlines across the country are proving that the health hazards associated with a career in real estate may be pushing real estate up the danger scale rather quickly.
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